tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883630113509537643.post8499047069429354356..comments2023-07-10T00:34:00.412-07:00Comments on Autism Research Australasia: Rapid online diagnosis of ASDUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2883630113509537643.post-70818381995799882222012-04-22T22:13:49.278-07:002012-04-22T22:13:49.278-07:00It's an interesting idea. But a few things to ...It's an interesting idea. But a few things to bear in mind:<br /><br />The press release talks about the ADI but the paper is only about the ADOS.<br /><br />The claims based on the ADOS data have been massively oversold. They reduced the number of items on the ADOS by only looked at the most clear-cut cases (those with an ADOS diagnosis of "autism", excluding anyone with an "autism spectrum" diagnosis). We have to assume that many more items are required to identify individuals on the milder end of the spectrum. Even then, it doesn't do much for shortening the ADOS, because they still have to do 8 out of 10 activities to get all the items they need.<br /><br />Given the above, I'm waiting for the ADI-R data to be published before I get too excited. That said, the ADI-R is massively redundant. It takes about 3 hours and most of the items don't go into the diagnostic algorithm. We don't need a fancy machine learning algorithm to tell us this, but if it's what it takes to get people to change the ADI-R, I'm all in favour!drbrocktagonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15225859145004971487noreply@blogger.com