New Science Fair Proposal

1. Hypothesis:

• If details are overlooked, then a psychiatrist could misdiagnose the patient.

2. Experiment:

1. Find acceptable diagnostic test for autism*
2. Review criteria for autism
3. Choose one criteria that can be a disorder on its own/find autism-related disease (5 total)
4. Create disease profiles for autism and +1 disease
5. Create pseudopatients with basic info (info that only includes criteria for +1 disease)
6. Create pseudopatient with extra info (info that includes criteria for autism)
7. Administer autism test accompanied with basic character/disease profile
8. If test is failed, it's the +1disease...if passed, the evaluator did something wrong
9. Administer test with extra info character/disease profiles
10. Pseuopatient should pass

[the objective is for the evaluator to diagnose the disorder properly. the trick is the disorder choices will be similar in symptomatology. By doing this, I would prove that by just scraping the surface, no one can make an accurate diagnosis; but when you dig deeper and find new information, it can change everything.]
*The test will be very basic, one that can be found online. Usually a diagnosis is a combination of tests, but for my purposes, I will use one of many; one that I can actually access online.

3. Variables:

• age in years
• number of faulty diagnoses
• number of correct diagnoses
• test
• information given
• type of disease