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@dang Can you let us know why this got flagged if it was not an error? It is a less well known medical condition and some of us have a vested interest in knowin

@dang Can you let us know why this got flagged if it was not an error? It is a less well known medical condition and some of us have a vested interest in knowing if the article is rubbish or not.

dang 3y ago
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things. In this case the article is rather short, and is about a study that hasn't been published yet. Perhaps they felt it wasn't substantive enough? or perhaps they object to scientific studies being preceded by press releases? It does seem odd to see an article like this without a link to the paper because the paper hasn't been published yet.
- bookofjoe 3y ago
  As a rule, results such as these, "...set to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 76th Annual Meeting in April 2024," are published prior to meetings as part of an "abstracts to be presented" document sent to all meeting registrants. These published abstracts are considered scientific publications and indexed as such online/on Google Scholar/in C.V.s. Only about 5-10% — my personal estimate, having been there done that many times [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5DdrMc8AAAAJ&hl=en https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5DdrMc8AAAAJ&hl=en] — of abstracts are ever expanded into published papers, which sometimes appear many years after the abstract. Re: this particular article on this subject, I would refer HN readers to the 2009 prospective study cited yesterday in the discussion section: >Essential tremor is associated with dementia https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2731620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2731620/ From the paper's Abstract: >Furthermore, an association between ET and dementia has been reported in a single population-based study in Spain. This has not been confirmed elsewhere. It is a peer-reviewed scientific paper on precisely the same subject.
- ashleyn 3y ago
  On mobile, I frequently bump the "flag" button by mistake. Often it happens quick and I don't notice it. I once checked my list of flagged topics and they were all pretty anodyne, inoffensive, constructively posted links I don't even remember flagging. So I think it may be a UX issue, potentially remedied by a mobile-purpose stylesheet with larger UI elements.
  - dang 3y ago
    It's a factor, yes, and it's on my list to add a confirmation step on mobile.

@dang Can you let us know why this got flagged if it was not an error? It is a less well known medical condition and some of us have a vested interest in knowing if the article is rubbish or not.

dang 3y ago

Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things. In this case the article is rather short, and is about a study that hasn't been published yet. Perhaps they felt it wasn't substantive enough? or perhaps they object to scientific studies being preceded by press releases? It does seem odd to see an article like this without a link to the paper because the paper hasn't been published yet.

bookofjoe 3y ago
As a rule, results such as these, "...set to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 76th Annual Meeting in April 2024," are published prior to meetings as part of an "abstracts to be presented" document sent to all meeting registrants. These published abstracts are considered scientific publications and indexed as such online/on Google Scholar/in C.V.s. Only about 5-10% — my personal estimate, having been there done that many times [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5DdrMc8AAAAJ&hl=en https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5DdrMc8AAAAJ&hl=en] — of abstracts are ever expanded into published papers, which sometimes appear many years after the abstract. Re: this particular article on this subject, I would refer HN readers to the 2009 prospective study cited yesterday in the discussion section: >Essential tremor is associated with dementia https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2731620/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2731620/ From the paper's Abstract: >Furthermore, an association between ET and dementia has been reported in a single population-based study in Spain. This has not been confirmed elsewhere. It is a peer-reviewed scientific paper on precisely the same subject.
ashleyn 3y ago
On mobile, I frequently bump the "flag" button by mistake. Often it happens quick and I don't notice it. I once checked my list of flagged topics and they were all pretty anodyne, inoffensive, constructively posted links I don't even remember flagging. So I think it may be a UX issue, potentially remedied by a mobile-purpose stylesheet with larger UI elements.
- dang 3y ago
  It's a factor, yes, and it's on my list to add a confirmation step on mobile.