thelettere

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Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs(experimentalhistory.substack.com)
2 points by thelettere 4y ago|0 comments
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by thelettere 4y ago
Agreed save for the last line - the character limit means nothing complex can ever be successfully discussed there. Which excludes basically every important subject, leaving quick news and jokes as the only viable uses of the platform for a
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by thelettere 4y ago
So I should save my outrage for juveniles acting like juveniles on a juvenile platform rather than a grown man playing psychologist and successfully clickbaiting a moderated adult platform? One could argue I shouldn't be outraged at ei
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by thelettere 4y ago
It should go without saying that a rumor is not a case report. Name one physician who published a report based on extensive first person experience with a vampire (and not, say, Renfield's syndrome). Plus the case reports are only supp
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by thelettere 4y ago
Just because it's more often contested doesn't exempt the author from the responsibility to grapple with (or at the very least make himself aware of) the reasons why it's included in the DSM and the ISD and why it's been
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by thelettere 4y ago
"I have ADHD so I'm an expert on autism."
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by thelettere 4y ago
Dude has exactly zero expertise in the field or experience with this population, and yet he makes these kinds of claims. And all based on an article or two he found. Pathetic. Almost every psychiatric diagnosis is problematic, and articles
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by thelettere 4y ago
Stikk is a company that specializes in this, and they say their numbers indicate it works.
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by thelettere 4y ago
No one seems to be talking about this being a normal part of the stage of life you're in. The 40's are typically the most miserable decade in a person's life, and this is well documented. The major caveat to that is "I k
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by thelettere 4y ago
Appreciate the FYI. Of course it's on the comment where I lay out my clearest argument - but so it goes.
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by thelettere 4y ago
You're the one talking like a young person (and I'm firmly in middle age, thank you very much). You do know what the world looked like when we relied entirely on anecdotes for knowledge? If that's the world you want to live i
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by thelettere 4y ago
My point was that we don't have to pretend that we're the first sentient beings to have a conversation on these issues, or ignore/dismiss that on many of them there has been progress made. That while there remain many fascina
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by thelettere 4y ago
Not "most". Half of the published research in Ioannidis's ground-breaking analysis couldn't be replicated. Which means half could be (edit: numbers which roughly match a more recent analysis: https://elifescie
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by thelettere 4y ago
There are no studies on the empiricism of HN comments, in which case anecdotes and personal observations are all we have. And I'm not making some obtuse argument, but a common sense one which is readily recognizable by anyone who frequ
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by thelettere 4y ago
Have value how? How is it not in fact the very opposite of valuable (in cases where there is some empirical knowledge)? I enjoy anecdotes occasionally as well, but here's a thought: if all you have is personal experience (i.e. you have
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HN: The Anti-Science Crowd?
7 points by thelettere 4y ago|15 comments
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by thelettere 4y ago
How am I cherry-picking when I included several reviews? Find one review that concludes the opposite (or that such studies are "split" as you say) and perhaps you'll have an argument. "based on your initial question to m
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by thelettere 4y ago
Former counselor here: I think it's important to differentiate between short term anti-depressant use and long term use. Short term use can be effective for motivating you to do all the non-medication things that have evidence of worki
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by thelettere 4y ago
Again, the article is not about the immediate aftermath but one year later (i.e. long term effects). And Sonny Colbrelli was a freak incident - "All cardiac tests carried out last night showed no signs of concern or compromised functio
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by thelettere 4y ago
Huh, you've got to reach to the WNBA to find someone. Kinda proves my point. Edit: And to all the wonderful people who no doubt checked themselves to make sure they had expertise on the subject before they downvoted my question (!), he
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by thelettere 4y ago
The article is about "one year later" - not "immediately after".
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by thelettere 4y ago
Yeah and he just won eastern conference player of the month. Article makes it sound like he's at risk of any game now dropping down with a heart attack, which on the face of it is ridiculous. Exceptions do not contradict the rule - ath
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by thelettere 4y ago
If there's been such heart damage to athletes that caught it, how come they all are invariably coming back to the same exact performance they had previously? Is there such a thing as damage to the heart that has no effect on performanc
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by thelettere 5y ago
Also, being a victim and being privileged are generally seen as mutually exclusive, so it's a way to avoid guilt. And with the infinite torrent of knowledge (including of the amount of suffering in the world) at our fingertips, guilt i
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by thelettere 5y ago
Exactly. All that energy and time and money to "cultivate" gifted individuals only for them to crawl into that black pit. And the irony is that this education only helps them make that choice with self-awareness of how absurd and
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by thelettere 5y ago
Where have you been the last 20 plus years? This is a subject that's been wrestled with in many high profile books and articles over that period and beyond, and how this is not self-evident to anyone who reads is beyond me. Here's
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by thelettere 5y ago
"The problem of educating the educators is a problem which the democrat forgets in his enthusiasm for educating the pupils." When's the last time a single person on hn dared to look at the curriculum of the average degree in
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by thelettere 5y ago
This can't all be explained away by marketing. It matters, but status concerns are an ancient and primal part of human beings and is a central motivator of behavior. Marketing exacerbates the issue by priming us for status constantly a
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by thelettere 5y ago
Yes it does mention it - scholar gives you direct quotes in the subheading, which for this one is: "alter one type of pain (eg, Tylenol reduces physical pain) can alter the other as well (eg, Tylenol reduces social pain)." I did a
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by thelettere 5y ago
I don't understand - have you never used Google scholar? Type in the relevant terms and there are a million relevant results. I just pasted the top one, which is all about how physical pain and mental pain is basically physiologically

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