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Record W7133677007 · doi:10.1080/1047840x.2025.2605593

Do Autistic People Have Degrees of Disability in Theory of Mind? The Importance of Meta-Analytic Convergence

2025· article· en· W7133677007 on OpenAlexaff
Simon Baron-Cohen, Marcin A. Radecki, Carrie Allison, David M. Greenberg, Varun Warrier, Meng-Chuan Lai, Michael Lombardo, Simone Shamay-Tsoory, Florina Uzefovsky, Rebecca Saxe, Helen Tager‐Flusberg, Ami Klin, Alan M. Leslie, Uta Frith

Bibliographic record

VenuePsychological Inquiry · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicChild and Animal Learning Development
Canadian institutionsOntario College of Art and DesignOntario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental HealthHospital for Sick ChildrenUniversity of TorontoCentre for Addiction and Mental Health
FundersEuropean CommissionDepartment of Health and Social CareNational Institute for Health and Care ResearchAutism SpeaksSimons Foundation Autism Research InitiativeMedical Research CouncilEuropean Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and AssociationsNIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research CentreWellcome Trust
KeywordsConvergence (economics)Autistic traitsAutismGeneralizationPerspective (graphical)

Abstract

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We are pleased to be invited to comment on the article by Travis LaCroix regarding theory of mind (ToM) in autism. We make one key point: LaCroix’s claim that the hypothesis of ToM disability in au...

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.321
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.622
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch
Consensus categoriesMetaresearch
DomainCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Meta-analysis · Consensus signal: Meta-analysis
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.679
Threshold uncertainty score0.837

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.3210.622
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0060.007
Bibliometrics0.0090.007
Science and technology studies0.0020.011
Scholarly communication0.0120.020
Open science0.0050.006
Research integrity0.0050.009
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.155
GPT teacher head0.423
Teacher spread0.269 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.

Study designMeta-analysis
DomainMethods
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2025
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