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by svnt 618 days ago
They are deliberately using an inflammatory title and too-big terms for the constituencies they are describing. If they define the Global North as the United States and the UK, they should just say that. If by the Global South they mean India, they should just say that.
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Mehticulous 617 days ago
They do. Do they not? Isn't that kind of the whole point?

How can a neurodiversity paradigm represent the people whose data it appropriates: colonizes?

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makeitdouble 617 days ago
TFA goes with "Global North—mainly the United Kingdom and the United States", so they're just putting the US and UK front and center without excluding the other countries of the usual split [0]. In particular they don't care to do the same spotlighting for the Global South, which makes us fallback to the traditional split to decide which countries fall where.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South

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Mehticulous 617 days ago
Just found this and thought it very applicable.

It's a global heatmap style chart of autism research.

Http://prevalence.spectrumnews.org/

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