Everyone has ADHD because we made it up

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What happened
I’ve been studying ADHD as a central part of my PhD for the past few years, specifically by taking an individual differences approach in non-clinical samples. That means I don’t typically run experiments comparing people with an ADHD diagnosis to people without one (ethics is too long). Instead, I run experiments on everyone and correlate their results with an ADHD trait score, which is basically a summed-up measure…
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