"Why won't autistic people kill kittens?" and other terrible research

Every day, autism researchers are hard at work studying the most pressing issues that face our community. For example, how much do you need to pay an autistic person for them to consent to kitten murder?

In this episode, we're playing a game where Tarah shares the results of some "unusual" autism studies and John tries to channel the mind of a researcher to guess what conclusions they draw. Spoiler alert! This game is harder than you think. Join us, and see if you can beat John!

Links:
• Study #1:The prisoner's dilemma with children (nature.com/articles/srep04314)
• Study #2:Morality questions, but with adults this time (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4834434)
• Study #3:Kitten killing (jneurosci.org/content/41/8/1699)
• This comic (newtsoda.tumblr.com/post/681610131808681984/th…) inspired by the kitten killing study

00:00 Introduction
01:37 Explaining the game setup
02:27 Why are we focusing on autism today?
04:58 Round 1A - Introducing the first half of study #1
07:07 Round 1A - John's guess and results
09:38 Round 1B - Introducing the second half of study #1
12:23 Round 1B - John's guess and results
17:57 Round 2 - Introducing study #2
21:08 Round 2 - John's guess and results
31:57 Round 3 - Introducing study #3
33:11 Round 3 - John's guess and results
40:46 Closing thoughts