There is one thing I found perplexing about this article. The articles states that the children with ADHD were on stimulant medication but it also indicates that there was an uncertainty as to whether the children were on effective medication or seeing maximum benefit as a result of medication . On effective medication, such behaviors would indeed be toned downed or reduced and only then would a study like that be considered to have some validity. Below is part of what is stated in the article. I also agree with Lillian that the study should have had an unbiased observer.
It should also be noted that the medication treatment received by these children was provided in regular community settings, which is often less carefully monitored and effective than what is found in clinical research trials. Thus, it is certainly possible that medication treatment provided in a more stringent manner would eliminate, or at least reduce, many of the residual difficulties that were clearly evident in this sample
This was interesting, but I could have told you that.What I kept thinking reading this article is that I would have preferred an unbiased observer marking behaviors at the same time parents were, then comparing to see if the way parents of ADHD and non-ADHD children see their children is the same as an unbiased observer. KWIM? their Moms