> A good example of this is ADD or ADHD or whatever the fave designation is
> these days. It is now known without question that diet and extra-
> curricula activities (eg Sugar and TV) trigger hyper behavior. So a
> school psychologist, one eye on a normative behavioral chart another on
> the dervish kid, will see behavior as a purely 'internal' attribute. The
> fact that this kid had two bowels of Count Chocula and watched 1/2 an
> episode of Power Rangers before school is off their scope maybe even of
> no interest before the parents are called. Maybe this has changed.
Actually, ZerkonX's response demonstrates an interesting example of
attribution using ADD/ADHD as the example. To my awareness, I thought
that ADHD was not really influenced by sugar intake, although when
parents think that their children are eating sugar they rate them as
being more hyperactive, even if the childrens' behavior actually
doesn't change. (see http://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/publications/adhd/complete-publication.shtml#pub4
and http://addadhdadvances.com/sugar.html.
