How exciting! Real kudos! Sad to say mine were boring immigrants. Wait a minute, shouldn't all Australians with non-aboriginal ethnicity get...
Given that our ancestors going back a hundred years or more probably all had pretty ghastly, dangerous, insecure, violent, death-filled, and...
I'm immediately suspicious of the results of this study, because they immediately break them down by gender without stating up-front that gender...
Oh, okay. Point taken.
That's true. There's no guarantee that the primary researchers are any good either. I don't think the PACE psychologists and psychiatrists...
I think that's a little unfair. That's not at all what I said. I've seen many times on the forum people placing unreasonable expectations on...
I would say its unreasonable to expect a statistician to understand the psychological factors that may influence outcomes - recall bias,...
One other point. The study hypothesis is never a theory or and idea. Its always a specific outcome of a specific study. So the PACE authors...
I will try to explain as best as I can. Traditional scientific methodology is based on the idea of hypothesis testing. You come up with a...
Oh, this is a name I've heard. He has some interesting things to say. ie. actual genuine expertise in research methodology. He's interested in...
Fair question, deserves a considered answer. "... a hitch in cell danger response, natural cellular reaction to harm" sounds to me very...
Whoa, my bullshitometer just went into overdrive! Anyone else get that reaction? Or is it just me?
I've had similar musings myself! Surely, if its all about verbal thought, then the very intelligent should more prone to depression than the...
I read the comments section of the original Times article, and was shocked by the number of self-declared FM sufferers who bought into the idea...
What we think we know about other animals - and don't - is almost as huge as what we think we know about mental illness - and don't. To put it...
Lakens is an important figure in the movement for the improvement of psychological science (SIPS). He has great statistical skills, and has...
Hell yea, its like a Wessely mini-me!
Yes, this is my suspicion too. Emotions are at the core of cognition and drive everything. Our thoughts, our feelings, our experience, our...
Good for you, @Jonathan Edwards! You are not being at all unfair. The relationship between thought and language is in fact my area of expertise....
Pretty sure additional therapies were only offered after the trial endpoint (52 weeks/12 months). Those wishing to find evidence of "cheating" in...
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