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> Bullshit ADHD diagnosis are bad for people like you who are genuinely affected, as the resources available to help you end up getting shared and stretched to

> Bullshit ADHD diagnosis are bad for people like you who are genuinely affected, as the resources available to help you end up getting shared and stretched to cover disciplinary and structural educational problems. A non-ADHD child isn't helped by ADHD prescription and unnecessary services, and an ADHD child isn't helped by not getting the attention he needs. I'm interested in you developing the last thought you had.

Spooky23 11y ago
My dumb friend in the 90s scored a phoney diagnosis and got an expensive prescription and an expensive accommodation for free. He wasn't alone, and the insurance dollars consumed and "reasonable accommodations" obtained took away or raised the cost of things that you actually need.
- eruditely 11y ago
  ?? Do you know how much has changed since the nineties? There's ecological EF deficit tests now(barkley's). Yeah like one guy getting an odd diagnosis is enough for you to continue your opinion. This is just classical bayes rule dude, there will be a lot of false positives _no matter what_ unless the diagnosis rate is an absurdly high number. You're blaming other people for not knowing that's the way the numbers always come out? https://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/30002.6.shtml https://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/30002.6.shtml > Suppose that you are worried that you might have a rare disease. You decide to get tested, and suppose that the testing methods for this disease are correct 99 percent of the time (in other words, if you have the disease, it shows that you do with 99 percent probability, and if you don't have the disease, it shows that you do not with 99 percent probability). Suppose this disease is actually quite rare, occurring randomly in the general population in only one of every 10,000 people.

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> Bullshit ADHD diagnosis are bad for people like you who are genuinely affected, as the resources available to help you end up getting shared and stretched to

by eruditely 11y ago

Spooky23 11y ago
My dumb friend in the 90s scored a phoney diagnosis and got an expensive prescription and an expensive accommodation for free. He wasn't alone, and the insurance dollars consumed and "reasonable accommodations" obtained took away or raised the cost of things that you actually need.
- eruditely 11y ago
  ?? Do you know how much has changed since the nineties? There's ecological EF deficit tests now(barkley's). Yeah like one guy getting an odd diagnosis is enough for you to continue your opinion. This is just classical bayes rule dude, there will be a lot of false positives _no matter what_ unless the diagnosis rate is an absurdly high number. You're blaming other people for not knowing that's the way the numbers always come out? https://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/30002.6.shtml https://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/30002.6.shtml > Suppose that you are worried that you might have a rare disease. You decide to get tested, and suppose that the testing methods for this disease are correct 99 percent of the time (in other words, if you have the disease, it shows that you do with 99 percent probability, and if you don't have the disease, it shows that you do not with 99 percent probability). Suppose this disease is actually quite rare, occurring randomly in the general population in only one of every 10,000 people.