Table 2.

Inter-correlations between diagnostic group (adults referred for an ASD diagnosis and where the diagnosis was confirmed or disconfirmed) with ASD traits (autism traits, empathising and systematising) and social-cognition indices

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7
1. Diagnostic group	–	− .003	.32**	− .16*	.14	− .03	− .01
Cognitive ability
2. Digit span		–	− .12	.23	.21	.30	.32#
Traits
3. ASD traits			–	− .70**	.46**	− .11	− .10
4. Empathising ability				–	− .30**	.18*	.12
5. Systemising tendency					–	.04	− .03
Social-cognitive measures
6. Emotion evaluation						–	.57**
7. Social inference							–

Statistics indicate Spearmans rho, Ns vary between measures (see Table 1), ^#p < .1,, *p < .05,, **p < .001