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- Comment on 7 for me 1 month ago:
Even somewhere warmer, I’m a 2 year-round, too. I just have one very cool sheet that I use in the summer.
- Comment on Do it 2 months ago:
The pot in my ass
- Comment on Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how? 2 months ago:
I actually don’t know the way you’re supposed to beat Super Metroid “correctly.” I’ve always done what I ended up learning was a major sequence break resulting from a bunch of bomb jumps to get the power bomb early, and use that to get some other stuff that allows me to beat the game out of order.
I also never start Metroid Prime without immediately getting the double jump. I used to be up there on speed running that game. I don’t play the player’s choice or switch versions whenever I decide to crack it out. The original was literal perfection.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 2 months ago:
Mrs. Davis is one of my favorite shows period. That was a masterpiece.
- Comment on What are your top 10 series of all time? 3 months ago:
- House
- Legion
- Breaking Bad
- Futurama
- Scrubs
- Dexter
- Ozark
- Mr. Robot
- The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
- Snowfall
- Comment on The words "diversity", "equity" and "inclusion" seem to be blocked from NIH website's search function 5 months ago:
Yeah, I understood. My reply wasn’t actually directed at you; sorry for not being clear. I just wanted to add that bit in case other readers didn’t know that this was more forceful than a request.
- Comment on The words "diversity", "equity" and "inclusion" seem to be blocked from NIH website's search function 5 months ago:
They weren’t asked, they were mandated to do so directly by executive order. I get the desire to not comply, here, but if I’m NIH, I’m probably thinking that complying to keep the doors open for four years will do a hell of a lot more for the country than if they refuse and Trump totally dismantles their entire architecture with enough time that it’s difficult to reinstitute when he’s gone.
- Comment on I'm seriously proud of this 5 months ago:
Just as an aside, I hadn’t heard of that cursor feature before, and this is wonderful. Thanks for drawing my attention to it. I have to keep my work phone loaded with all the Google/MS spyware, so I still use Gboard on that phone. This will make typing work emails a lot easier.
- Comment on Anon thinks the French are posers 7 months ago:
Deflecting blame by subtle ethnic discrimination. Nice.
- Comment on She-Ra Lives! 7 months 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! 7 months 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 8 months 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 10 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 10 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago:
Me
- Comment on Miracle cures 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago:
Not true:
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0165032714003620
www.cghjournal.org/article/…/fulltext
I found more, too.
- Comment on Name & same. :) 1 year 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 1 year ago to science_memes@mander.xyz | 21 comments
- Comment on The Eurobean Mind Cannot Comprehend 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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" 1 year 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" 1 year 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.
