canihasaccount
@canihasaccount@lemmy.world
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 2 days ago:
A bit of an exaggeration, sure. But only a bit. The lay summary of the article I referenced states the following:
Venkataraman et al. find that the paper commits every error that it was possible to make in the paper: leaving out important papers, including irrelevant papers, using duplicate papers, mis-coding their societies, getting the wrong values for “big” versus “small” game, and many others.
“commits every error that it was possible to make in the paper,” and, “completely incorrect,” aren’t very different.
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 2 days ago:
This study this meme is based on is completely incorrect and should be retracted. Here’s a lay summary of its issues:
whyevolutionistrue.com/…/new-paper-debunks-the-pr…
And the published article detailing the problems with that study’s issues:
- Comment on Anon browses ancient memes 4 weeks ago:
MySpace was huge before Facebook, and it killed off a lot of blogs. Late 90s and early 2000s were truly the wild web IMO. I had a geocities page with its own forum before MySpace made me abandon it due to inactivity.
- Comment on Anon tries to be ethical 2 months ago:
The professor probably would have responded that his response was another part of the lesson: don’t trust those above you in a business setting.
- Comment on Oregonian driving 2 months ago:
Oregonians almost take pleasure in driving slowly in front of you. Maybe they’ve just gotten used to going slow because the entire state freeway system is always under construction. People driving crazily is infuriating for a completely different reason.
- Comment on We all know it's true 4 months ago:
I’m back on my BS is also a solid contributor
- Comment on Halo: Combat Evolved remaster reportedly in the works, being considered for PlayStation release 4 months ago:
The online play is garbage. I played in H1 tournaments around the US back when it was good and would love for them to do it better than they did with their remake. The remake actually remade Halo 1 PC, not the Xbox version.
- Comment on Halo: Combat Evolved remaster reportedly in the works, being considered for PlayStation release 4 months ago:
Me
- Comment on Miracle cures 5 months ago:
Sorry, but this makes clear that you aren’t in science. You should avoid trying to shit on studies if you don’t know how to interpret them. Both of the things you mentioned actually support the existence of a true effect.
First, if the treatment has an effect, you would expect a greater rate of relapse after the treatment is removed, provided that it treats a more final pathway rather than the cause: People in the placebo group have already been relapsing at the typical rate, and people receiving treatment–whose disease has been ramping up behind the dam of a medication preventing it from showing–are then expected to relapse at a higher rate after treatment is removed. The second sixth-month period was after cessation of the curcumin or place; it was a follow-up for treatment-as-usual.
Second, people drop out of a study nonrandomly for two main reasons: side effects and perceived lack of treatment efficacy. The placebo doesn’t have side effects, so when you have a greater rate of dropout in your placebo group, that implies the perceived treatment efficacy was lower. In other words, the worst placebo participants are likely the extra dropouts in that group, and including them would not only provide more degrees of freedom, it would theoretically strengthen the effect.
This is basic clinical trials research knowledge.
Again, I have no skin in the game here. I don’t take curcumin, nor would I ever. I do care about accurate depictions of research. I’m a STEM professor at an R1 with three active federal grants funding my research. The meme is inaccurate.
- Comment on Miracle cures 5 months ago:
Why are you completely ignoring the second paper I linked, which doesn’t suffer from any of the limitations you mentioned?
The meme says no trial was successful. Any trial with any small difference is a successful trial.
- Comment on Miracle cures 5 months ago:
I’m not saying the study is good, just that the meme isn’t true.
Also, you can level almost every single one of those criticisms against many studies for SSRIs and they’d hit just as hard. The exception being sample size.
- Comment on Miracle cures 5 months ago:
Not true:
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0165032714003620
www.cghjournal.org/article/…/fulltext
I found more, too.
- Comment on Name & same. :) 5 months ago:
That’s not actually the abstract; it’s a piece from the discussion that someone pasted nicely with the first page in order to name and shame the authors. I looked at it in depth when I saw this circulate a little while ago.
- Submitted 5 months ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 21 comments
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 6 months ago:
That’s fascinating, and I agree with you. Why the US hates the idea of high-speed rail is beyond me, especially because they prided themselves so much on the rail system they put together earlier in their development. In any case, the US can’t do much of anything with its debt-to-GDP as high as it is right now. They can hardly keep from shutting the government down entirely because they won’t even agree to a government budget.
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 6 months ago:
Also, the US is 9.14 million sq. km of land, whereas the EU is 4.29 million sq. km of land
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 6 months ago:
EU is still smaller
But the main reason the US can’t handle the same stuff at a federal level that the EU can is population density. The US government can’t afford to nationalize rural healthcare given how rural the US can be–especially with their debt/GDP at the moment. Give it another few hundred years and the US might catch up to Europe in that respect.
- Comment on WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" 9 months ago:
No, it isn’t; performance != ability, and it’s not clear that cognitive performance declines at all–hence the word “may” mean to you?
My claim is that
Cognitive performance may also decline in remote settings
Nothing more.
- Comment on WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" 9 months ago:
The RCT is free to access (if you haven’t downloaded more than three NBER papers; if you have, open the page in a different browser). Scroll down on the page I linked and download it via the button.
Statistically, you can control for variables in OLS regression–that’s literally exactly what the model does when you include more than one variable–and, provided that you got your doctorate in anything that uses statistics, I am sure you know that.
Seasonality is one of the more basic economics concepts. The influence of weather and seasonal illness trends on productivity has been shown in a number of studies (e.g., productivity declines during the flu season). The authors didn’t “show” it because it would be like showing gravity in a physics paper. Some things can be assumed. Also, productivity didn’t have a trend, as was stated in the text that I quoted.
You completely ignored the log transformed results, which the authors note were better fit by the regression than the untransformed data, and which showed less productivity in work from home regardless of whether seasonality was controlled.
Personally, I think people should be able to work from home all they want. Productivity isn’t the only important thing in life, nor is it the only important thing to businesses (e.g., retention of top employees is important). I am wholly against WebMD and all other companies requiring employees to return to the office. All I was doing in my comments was trying to clarify the data on WFH and productivity. There are good reasons to continue to allow WFH, but increased productivity is not one.
I’m going to finish my course prep. You can have the final word here; I don’t have time to continue debating anymore.
- Comment on WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" 9 months ago:
First, the RCT is a much stronger study. I’m not sure why you’re picking a bone with a correlational paper when there is a causal manipulation that I linked first.
Second, did you actually read the paper? 1B isn’t the graph of productivity; 1C is. You can’t just look at a graph, either–you need statistics.
“For Output, figure 1B, there is no visible monotonic or linear trend, so a seasonal time correction might be more appropriate here. Moreover, average output appears to be slightly lower during WFH.
For Productivity, figure 1C, the graph is more volatile, which is not surprising for a ratio. There is no clear linear time trend before WFH, but some variation from month to month, so a seasonal correction might be more appropriate. Productivity drops visibly during WFH. Finally, figure 1D plots the log of Productivity, which drops considerably after the start of WFH.
To quantify the WFH effect, and to control for employee and team time-invariant variables (via employee and team fixed effects), we now turn to the regression analyses. Informally, the estimates give us average differences in outcomes before and during WFH for the same employee, controlling for team effects (since employees sometimes switch teams) and time trends.
Table 4 reports WFH effect estimates based on OLS regressions for all three outcome variables, plus the natural logarithm of Productivity, in each case with linear and seasonal time trend corrections. All estimates are in line with the visible effects in the raw data in figure 1.
…
Columns 5 and 6 show that both WFH effect estimates on Productivity are negative, but only the estimate with seasonal time trend is significantly different from zero. We prefer that specification, since both the plot and the linear time trend coefficient indicate that a linear trend is not as appropriate. According to this specification, productivity decreased by 0.26 output percentage points per hour worked. Given an average WFO productivity of 1.36, this estimate corresponds to a 19% drop in output per hour worked. This is economically significant: if employees worked a fixed 40 hours per week, this would imply a drop in output of 10.2 output percentage points in a week. In other words, if employees had not increased time worked during WFH, on average they would have completed only 90 of 100 assigned tasks.”
- Comment on WebMD forcing employees back to office. "We aren’t asking or negotiating at this point. We’re informing" 9 months ago:
Beyond self-reports and perception-based outcomes, most extant studies that I’m aware of have found decreases in real output. For example, a randomized controlled trial by the NBER found that productivity of employees randomly assigned to work from home was 18% lower than employees randomly assigned to work in the office:
Another study found that output decreased by around 13% when employees worked from home, even though hours worked increased:
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/…/721803
Cognitive performance may also decline in remote settings:
- Comment on ASG: 2nd fan vote return 9 months ago:
Klay Thompson being in the top 10 for guards while Sabonis isn’t in the top 10 for frontcourt is a crime against humanity
- Comment on 5 feet apart = Not gay 1 year ago:
You can choose to ignore things you don’t understand on Lemmy. I don’t go into the Risa posts because I know they’re not for me. If something doesn’t make sense and you want to ask about it, go for it, but don’t get upset when the explanation isn’t one that makes sense to you. For a lot of people, popular Vines were everywhere for a while. Not everything on the internet is for you.
- Comment on Free raisins! 1 year ago:
Nick (fine print) learned that by choosing violence, he gets more of the limited resources.
- Comment on Pizza 1 year ago:
So close, and yet so concussed
- Comment on Unity Claims PlayStation, Xbox & Nintendo Will Pay Its New Runtime Fee On Behalf Of Devs 1 year ago:
Nintendo looooves to sue people over so many things though
