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I don’t trust any soft science research. Hard science had a replication issue too but it’s way easier to find issues and run numbers. Psychology especially as a

• vasco 3y ago
  Same. This basically amounts to "one afternoon we got 200 people to answer surveys that were a tiny more like this than like that". The way to do this in my opinion would be to go over mental disorder demographics and see if any profession is underrepresented in actual cases compared to the prevalence of the job in the overall population. This is like finding the most dangerous jobs by surveying people instead of looking at injury rates at work.
  • Talanes 3y ago
    >The way to do this in my opinion would be to go over mental disorder demographics and see if any profession is underrepresented in actual cases compared to the prevalence of the job in the overall population. I don't think that would get you any better data. Access to the care to get diagnosed in the first place isn't equally distributed, so some groups are going to be a much better sampling of their actual population than others.
• dang 3y ago
  "Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents." "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html