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You mean the part where ADHD brains have lower baseline alertness which declines with cognitive effort far faster than a healthy person's, with impaired emotion
by Llamamoe 2y ago
You mean the part where ADHD brains have lower baseline alertness which declines with cognitive effort far faster than a healthy person's, with impaired emotional and impulse control coming together to result in inability to maintain focus and motivation for anything that isn't urgent, exciting, or novel?
This study is absurdly poorly designed and its interpretation is as ridiculous as if you wrote "cancer was an evolutionary advantage because it made people more likely to worry about their health". Absurd.
- rcxdude 2y agoIt is possible for a trait that is broadly negative in most environments to confer enough of an advantage in a specific environment to be selected for: see sickle-cell anemia. And there are scenarios where people with ADHD outperform thise without (the famous "gorilla video" tends not to fool them, for example). But I agree this is basically only hinting at a possible hypothesis, nowhere near an actual conclusion.