Baron Cohen Sample

Question 0

What were the IQs of the people in each group?

Answer 0

Group 1 - all normal intelligence (mean IQ of 105.31). Group 2 - all assumed to have a normal intelligence (IQ of above 85). Group 3 - all normal intelligence (mean IQ of 103.5)

Question 1

What were the three types of groups in the sample?

Answer 1

Group of people with high functioning autism or Asperger’s syndrome, group of normal people, group of people with Tourette’s syndrome.

Question 2

What was group 1?

Answer 2

16 subjects (13 males and 3 females). Got from an advert in the National Autistic Society magazine.

Question 3

What was group 2?

Answer 3

50 normal age-matched adults (25 males and 25 females). No history of any psychiatric conditions (as established from self report). Selected randomly.

Question 4

What was group 3?

Answer 4

10 adult patients (8 males and 2 females). They were all attending a referral centre in London.