ben_sisko

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by ben_sisko 1y ago
Sounds like you need to read better books Bromaster General!
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by ben_sisko 1y ago
The exercise and food science people are the worst of social science buddy. Or just “social” something, because it’s not science. “Science-based” always makes me laugh. The DSM only matters if somebody is actively seeking treatment for some
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by ben_sisko 1y ago
“Chemical imbalance” lol. You have inadvertently outed yourself as not having a clue by your reply. It’s nothing personal but you just clearly don’t have a clue and/or don’t have skin in the game. It’s fine. I don’t know anything about
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by ben_sisko 1y ago
The DSM diagnostic categories are glorified billing codes that everybody (who actually has real ground contact with mental health care for real for real) recognizes as primitive, Stone Age relics. In five or ten years, these categories will
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by ben_sisko 2y ago
Before I got my first pair of progressives lenses I saw a lot of conflicting anecdotal accounts. After doing research, the conclusion I came to was simple: I got the very best progressive lens that Lens Crafters sells because the best lens
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by ben_sisko 2y ago
Julia is the Desktop Linux of these kinds of programming languages: it’s about to get really big sometime very soon in the future! Then you see a post like this years later. “THIS YEAR IS IT!”
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by ben_sisko 2y ago
This link lays out the case in an exceptionally thorough and damning (for Julia) way.
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by ben_sisko 2y ago
I’m not saying the non-stimulant options do nothing, but on average the non-stimulant options have a lower effect size than the stimulants. There are many well designed studies that have covered this territory over and over. Lots of people
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by ben_sisko 2y ago
Stimulant medication for ADHD has the highest effect size in all of psychiatry. ADHD is highly treatable, when people are properly treated. This just feels like something that somebody made for the parents who are pathologically drug averse
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by ben_sisko 2y ago
The “Job Openings vs Interest Rates” section is incredibly weak and amateurish. Just a bunch of assertions and conjecture. - Superimposing two graphs is the evidence provided? Really? - The “correlation is causation” part is atomic level cr
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by ben_sisko 3y ago
Big data