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The title and tweet contents are completely anecdotal (ie false), although the title implies a study was done. I flagged this.
by ramphastidae 5y ago
The title and tweet contents are completely anecdotal (ie false), although the title implies a study was done. I flagged this.
- wheelinsupial 5y agoI suppose I should have read all of the comments before posting my response to another comment. There has been a study on this: 2018: https://cssl.osu.edu/documents/cpds-key-findings-2018.pdf https://cssl.osu.edu/documents/cpds-key-findings-2018.pdf 2015: https://cssl.osu.edu/posts/632320bc-704d-4eef-8bcb-87c83019f2e9/documents/cpds-key-findings-report-2015.pdf https://cssl.osu.edu/posts/632320bc-704d-4eef-8bcb-87c83019f... In 2015 18.6% and in 2018 15.9% of respondents admitted to misusing stimulants for non-medical reasons Perhaps adjust the Twitter link to an actual study instead of being removed altogether. It does seem there is something to discuss even if the reported anecdotes are flawed.
- ac29 5y ago> In 2015 18.6% and in 2018 15.9% of respondents admitted to misusing stimulants for non-medical reasons I read the 2018 study. It should be noted that the 15.9% who reported using stimulants was for lifetime use. Of those 15.9%, 37% hadn't used them even once in the past year, and 47% had used them 1-9 times in the past year. This is a huge difference from 25% of students using "1-7X/week" like in the tweet. 1-7X a week would put them into the 50+ in the past year category, which in this study was 3% of the 15.9% of lifetime users, or 0.4% overall. Two orders of magnitude less.