>>2259851autism score rates are dropping because of covid (not long-covid or cognitive reductionist explanations) directly undermining educational propensities during some of the most formative and malleable periods of development, as well as the fact that covid attenuated people out of social space, which is vastly more significant than people recognize, see i.e. vygotsky's theory of sociocultural intellectual development. In actuality, though, this does not signify the property you might assume ('quantified smartness'); it instead indicates the corrosion and general atomization of the zeitgeist's would-be-social mores… the hallmark of today's day and age is disjuncture from the sociosymbolic order amidst endless discord. And the more that intensifies, the more all means of cultural signification break down, resembling schizophrenia: patterns which do not correspond to the norm, hence low autism score just like schizophrenics, seeing new forms of reasoning and pattern conceptualization, but for all the wrong reasons: The patterned relations the alienated subject sees are real, but, in correspondence to their own standpoint's alterity, they thusly represent the *wrong* social order of intelligibility, and thus, the normative inkblot test which is the raven's matrices/other fluid tests of 'reasoning' find themselves at odds with the test-takers, and so, the aggregate begins to shift.
The esoteric truth of the 'midwit' meme truly is that both the low and high scorers are infinitely more alike than the median could ever hope to compare to being: why? Because they are outside of the norm in their perception. The low autism score answerer provides his response in earnest, seeing a relation which is not sanctioned or permissible, and thus, which registers as 'wrong'–the high autism score answerer sees the same thing, but realizes and exploits the rules of the game, to feed into what he knows the test maker's regard as 'right'. Fun fact: When the underlying rules composing 'fluid' intelligence subtests are made explicit, i.e. 'this is a XOR', performance on these tests radically levels out in such a way that little discrepancy exists anymore–yet where discrepancy does (in some diminished capacity) persist, it does so specifically in relation to the willingness to abide & implement the rules as stated, i.e. an issue of obedience, as opposed to an issue of 'raw' comprehension.
There is nothing 'leftist' whatsoever about wanting everyone to be 'high autism score'–you concede to the bourgeois' normativity masquerading as 'science' produced from the hegemonic anglo-metaphysical assumptions which are then enshrined by the intelligentsia.
The true, unifying play in radicalism here is to overlap the far right and left via a hegelian subversive critique against autism score: the celebration of difference in minds is precisely what we seek, the problem with standardization is that by definition it cannot go far enough in recognizing this. It never can. It only flattens.