bias

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Emma_Renstroem/publication/333340403_Health_and_Disability_Physicians%27_gender_bias_in_the_diagnostic_assessment_of_medically_unexplained_symptoms_and_its_effect_on_patient-physician_relations/links/5ce7cdeca6fdccc9ddca7ebf/Health-and-Disability-Physicians-ge...

Two papers published today on the same subject, first: COMPare: a prospective cohort study correcting and monitoring 58 misreported trials in real time Background Discrepancies between pre-specified and reported outcomes are an important source of bias in trials. Despite legislation...

NHS Health Research Authority: <https://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons-committees/science-technology/Correspondence/190129-Sir-Jonathan-Montgomery-Health-Research-Authority-to-Chair-re-PACE-trial.pdf> --- CBT = Cognitive Behavioural Therapy GET = Graded Exercise Therapy Let's take Peter...

Gender Bias in Pediatric Pain Assessment https://academic.oup.com/jpepsy/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/jpepsy/jsy104/5273626?redirectedFrom=fulltext Journal of Pediatric Psychology, jsy104, https://doi.org/10.1093/jpepsy/jsy104 Brian D Earp et al, Published: 04 January 2019 (Paywall)...

Real-world studies no substitute for RCTs in establishing efficacy January 19, 2019 https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(18)32840-X/fulltext?utm_campaign=lancet&utm_content=83224321&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&hss_channel=tw-27013292#.XEgvxfcH2L0.twitter...

yet another psychotherapy: "A large proportion of the identified studies treated patients suffering from anxiety and depression (see Table 1). There were eight trials on depressive disorders. Of these, seven were on major depressive disorder, whereas one study also included a small proportion...

I think people will be interested in this paper which shows a way of detecting and showing how citation bias can create unfounded authority. The parallels with the whole BPS network seem striking. I've often seen reference to how certain authors cite themselves. (emphasis added)...

I don't have anything to say on the topic but thought it might interest someone here. https://www.sfreporter.com/news/2018/09/19/algorithms-and-ethics/

Paper on statistical bias - a bit beyond me, but maybe of interest to others http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/5/9/181190

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/jep.13010 Free full text Sietse Wieringa MSc DPhil Student, Scientia Research Fellow1,2 Eivind Engebretsen PhD, Professor1, Kristin Heggen, PhD, Professor1, Trish Greenhalgh PhD, Professor3 In modern philosophy, the concept of truth has been...

Moderator note: This thread has been split off from the introductory MEpedia thread here. @JenB My reading of @JaimeS's 'objective truth' is pretty much the same as your 'accuracy'. The point seems to be that people should aim not to give a biased (subjective) view. So for the page on...

"Much of the social and medical sciences depend on randomised control trials. But while this may be considered the foundational experimental method, a certain degree of bias inevitably arises in any trial; whether this is sample bias, selection bias, or measurement bias. This is important as the...

https://m.cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/6/228027-effectiveness-of-anonymization-in-double-blind-review/fulltext

The article discusses and explains each of the listed items. https://medium.com/@drjasonfung/the-corruption-of-evidence-based-medicine-killing-for-profit

There's a neat summary of some of the issues, I haven't read the paper properly yet, but noticed this comment in particular, (emphasis added). http://www.pnas.org/content/115/11/2613

"Britons are eating 50 per cent more food than they admit, according to the first official use of a biological test to measure calorie intake. The scale of people’s lying and inaccuracy about what they eat undermines dietary recommendations based on shaky research, experts said. The findings...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/05/meditation-does-not-make-better-person-study-finds/ Yet more evidence of methodological flaws & bias in psych research? what?! never! :whistle::rolleyes:

As we've got a new forum, now when I come across an old annoying thing I thought I might post them up for newcomers' pleasure. There's been a lot of discussion recently of how treatments like CBT can encourage patients to fill in questionnaires more positively, even if more objective measures...

Articles that highlight the problems/limitations of clinical trials in general (**=key article) Placebo effects are weak: regression to the mean is the main reason ineffective treatments appear to work. Colquhoun, D. (blog) 2015 link to blog Placebo Myths debunked. Novella, S. (blog) 2017 In...