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by Myrmornis 3166 days ago
Thanks! It sounds like an interesting result, presumably there will be fairly rapid efforts in the field to replicate these findings. (I'm influenced by the fact that this was published in a decent journal.)

In order to have some sense of how these findings relate to the notion of "dyslexia" as used in public life in western countries we obviously need to look at how the case cohort was selected. They say:

> all encountered difficulties in reading, spelling, writing and recognizing left from right

Presumably that means that every one of the 30 had problems with all 4 of those tasks. Possibly this is a narrower definition than that used by the public / educational psychologists -- I think they often diagnose dyslexia without requiring left/right confusion as a symptom?