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288 pages, Paperback
First published August 21, 2018
Autism research
In 1997 Baron-Cohen developed the "empathizing-systemizing (E-S) theory" which states that humans may be classified on the basis of their scores along two dimensions (empathizing and systemizing). The E-S theory argues that typical females on average score higher on empathizing relative to systemizing (they are more likely to have a brain of Type E), and typical males on average score higher on systemizing relative to empathizing (they are more likely to have a brain of Type S). Autistic people are predicted to score as an extreme of the typical male (they are more likely to have a brain of Type S or extreme Type S