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Thanks. :) Something that didn't make the post: I think there may be a small silver lining here for the ME/CFS patient community. To the extent that, in this study at least, the authors were prepared to entertain the idea that whatever is causing hepatitis C patients to still be fatigued six...

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Actually I think it's fine to label research as exploratory, which the authors more or less did here by saying that they set out to see what would turn up in their regressions. (Many other researchers would have written the introduction around their "specific hypothesis" that sexual harassment...

This is indeed a common problem. In this particular case, however, I don't think that "kitchen sink" is quite fair. They only have one source of independent variables (the TEC) and they state, up-front, that they are going to explore the relations between the various factors and the DVs. That...

Incidentally, it seems that the authors of de Venter et al. may have mentioned these data five years previously, in a letter to the British Journal of Psychiatry (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22297595), responding to a published article that had showed an association between parental...

Since this is a public forum I will comment only in general terms. This is indeed a minor paper, so it's unlikely that the media would be very interested in it. (That's not in itself any sort of comment on how the media covers ME.) One option is to write to the journal. That can either be to...

Oh, absolutely. It's not clear to me from the limited amount I've read whether the TEC is really a suitable measure to be using in a survey (as opposed to individual clinical) context. It might be of interest to a clinician with a patient to know that harassment took place but abuse didn't, or...

I think this may be a question of language --- the authors of the TEC (from the Netherlands) and of the de Venter et al. study (2017) are all, I think, native speakers of Dutch, and maybe "harassment" is the closest English word they found to whatever they had in mind in Dutch. The TEC...

Indeed. Of course, predictors are never independent (r = .0000000), and there is also what Lykken and Meehl famously called the "crud factor", aka "everything is correlated with everything else", at least to some degree. But when intercorrelations are less than .15-.20 or so that needn't cause a...

OK, some notes on the TEC measure: - The description of the TEC in the de Venter et al. article is somewhat different from that in the Nijenhuis et al. article, which de Venter et al. cite when introducing the measure - The Nijenhuis et al. article's description doesn't correspond, in several...

Hi - I'm the author of the blog post in question here. (I'm not sure how I prove that, but JohnTheJack believes me, as does my Twitter account with the same username, ). I'm busy for most of today and just managed to get a couple of minutes to write this post on my phone. I will try and post...