DOI: 10.7488/ds/7666
title: How successfully do autistic and non-autistic raters guess the diagnostic status of autistic and non-autistic people having conversations?
title: Are social difficulties in autism context-dependent? Investigating how conversational partners affect the accuracy of observers’ judgements about a person’s autistic diagnostic status.
title: Investigating (non-)autistic success at identifying (non-)autistic people in videos and pictures.
title: Investigating the accuracy of people’s judgements about social dyads’ autistic diagnostic status from videos of social interaction.

description: Recent research has shown that interactions between autistic people do not evidence the same social communication difficulties seen during interactions between autistic and non-autistic people. This raises questions about whether the social context (i.e. the respective autism status of the people interacting with one another) of an interaction affects observer’s ability to identify people as autistic. To examine whether the social context of an interaction also affects observers’ ability to identify autistic people in social interactions, we showed autistic and non-autistic raters videos (rater n=78; 39 autistic) and pictures (rater n=54; 27 autistic) of autistic and non-autistic people interacting (in own-neurotype and mixed pairs), and asked the raters to identify whether each member of the pair was autistic. Raters were able to identify autistic individuals in the stimuli at rates above chance. Dyad type, stimulus type (i.e. video or photo), and rater neurotype (as well as two- and three-way interactions between these factors) all affected identification accuracy, with raters displaying different patterns of accuracy across these factors. Our findings suggest that observers’ ability to identify autistic people depends on a number of socially contextual factors. There may also be an in-group guessing bias when attempting to identify someone’s diagnostic status.
description: This dataset is from a study where autistic and non-autistic participants were asked to watch videos of dyadic interactions (autistic dyads, non-autistic dyads, and dyads with one autistic and one non-autistic person) and judge whether each member of the dyad was autistic or not. We include: ethics documentation (including study protocol/ethics application, and information and consent forms), three processed datasets (participant demographic data, and the data from two different tasks; datasets are provided as both .xlsx (Microsoft Excel) and .csv (comma-separated value) files). Full information of the files in this overall dataset can be found in the README.txt file. Additionally, the code .zip contains its own README.txt with detailed information on its contents.
description: The Dataset contains: - Data_dictionary_for_photo_and_video_data files.csv : this csv file contains information on the variables (and their associated types) in the photo judgement and video judgement datasets. Both datasets have identical variables; only variable values are different. - Information_sheet_&_consent_[Durham].docx : this docx file contains the participant information sheet and consent form used at the University of Durham site during data collection. - Information_sheet_&_consent_[Edinburgh].docx : this docx file contains the participant information sheet and consent form used at the University of Edinburgh site during data collection. - Information_sheet_&_consent_[Nottingham].docx : this docx file contains the participant information sheet and consent form used at the University of Nottingham site during data collection. - Participant_demographic_data_in_CSV.csv : this csv file contains the participant demographic data. It contains 78 cases plus header row; data is identical to xlsx format. - Participant_demographic_data_in_XSLX.xlsx : this xlsx file contains the participant demographic data. It contains 78 cases plus header row; data is identical to csv format. - Photo_judgement_data_in_CSV.csv : this csv file contains the dataset regarding participant judgements of the photo stimuli. They contains 323 cases plus header row; data is identical to xlsx format. - Photo_judgement_data_in_XLSX.xlsx : this xlsx file contains the dataset regarding participant judgements of the photo stimuli. They contains 323 cases plus header row; data is identical to the csv format. - Video_judgement_data_in_CSV.csv : this csv file contains the dataset regarding participant judgements of the video stimuli. They contains 234 cases plus header row; data is identical to xlsx format. - Video_judgement_data_in_XLSX.xlsx : this xlsx file contains the dataset regarding participant judgements of the video stimuli. They contains 234 cases plus header row; data is identical to csv format. - [Ethics application]_Autistic_and_neurotypical_paired_interviews_exploring_social_experiences.docx : this docx file contains the ethical application for the study that this paper was based on, submitted to and approved by the PPLS research ethics board at the University of Edinburgh. - Data_dictionary_for_participant_demographic_data.csv : this csv file contains information on the variables (and their associated types) in the participant demographic dataset. - asc_judgements.zip : this zipped folder contains the full R project (datasets, code, and its own README) used for the statistical analysis of this data as reported in the paper associated with this dataset. - README.txt : File detailing the files contained in this dataset upload. - [Ethics application]_Autistic_and_neurotypical_paired_interviews_exploring_social_experiences.pdf : this pdf file contains the ethical application for the study that this paper was based on, submitted to and approved by the PPLS research ethics board at the University of Edinburgh. - Information_sheet_&_consent_[Durham].pdf : this pdf file contains the participant information sheet and consent form used at the University of Durham site during data collection. - Information_sheet_&_consent_[Edinburgh].pdf : this pdf file containsthe participant information sheet and consent form used at the University of Edinburgh site during data collection. - Information_sheet_&_consent_[Nottingham].pdf: this pdf file contains the participant information sheet and consent form used at the University of Nottingham site during data collection.