Talk:spectrum of autism

spectrum of autism
Sum of parts. How is this different from autistic spectrum? ---&gt; Tooironic 07:27, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * There is a chance that autism spectrum and, possibly, autistic spectrum are set phrases. I'd be very surprised if this could be shown to be a set phrase. It is certainly SoP, based on a common metaphorical sense of spectrum, poorly rendered in sense 2, which quasi-mathematically defines it as both infinite and bounded. DCDuring TALK 18:54, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * It fails the coordination test with respect to "autism" in the phrases "spectrum of autism and pervasive developmental disorders", "spectrum of autism and related conditions", and "spectrum of autism and atypical autistic disorders". "Spectrum" is also subject to modification with words such as "broad", "complete", "entire", "full" (common modifiers of "spectrum") and replaceable with "range". DCDuring TALK 19:09, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
 * Delete, [[spectrum]] [[of]] [[autism]] would be a suitable definition for it. Further details would be encyclopedic, not part of the definition. Mglovesfun (talk) 20:58, 14 November 2010 (UTC)

deleted -- Prince Kassad 14:52, 10 February 2011 (UTC)