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by anbende 6y ago
I read the comment as implying that they were overly broad and so should not be applied to the larger population outside of a professionals supervision. My counter-argument was that they were properly narrow and could indeed be applied to t
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by anbende 6y ago
These are screening tools. They are not meant to make definitive diagnoses for the most part. They are used for epidemiology and flagging clients for further assessment. There's always a balance to be made between sensitivity (picking
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by anbende 6y ago
Anxiety and sadness can both be adaptive, yes. How we cope with those emotions can also be adaptive or maladaptive. Both anxiety and depression, even in circumstances where they are reasonable responses, can benefit from supportive counseli
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by anbende 6y ago
This is a fair point. I read the op's comment as using the former definition. The latter definition wouldn't really apply as this is being determined by standardized testing. Unless one thinks that the standardized tests are overl
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by anbende 6y ago
I'm a PhD in clinical psychology, currently working with clients, whose research has focused on the psychometric evaluation of questionnaire measures. I have no idea what you're talking about. The diagnostic criteria are not &quot
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by anbende 6y ago
I wouldn’t care at all if they took a year off. Not one bit. I don’t particularly care about gaps in employment either. I only use college degree as a filter, because if I don’t I end up with a landslide of unqualified applicants to sort th
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by anbende 6y ago
I have a small company developing software in the mental health area. College degree provides a convenient filter for us in hiring. The percentage of quality applicants without a degree is just so low we don't even look at their applic
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by anbende 7y ago
Okay, I'll bite. The problem with "it's real" is that it's unclear WHAT is real. In science, we may start with "does it work", but the aim is to progress to "why it works" and follow the rabbit h
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by anbende 7y ago
You've linked to the dodo bird hypothesis, but the dodo bird hypothesis does NOT claim that all psychotherapy is placebo. It claims that all or nearly all established evidence-supported treatments given by trained professionals produce
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by anbende 7y ago
I’m in over my head technologically with an early stage startup (mental health and psychology space) that’s fairly close to revenue. We need help in a variety of roles - AWS lambda, managing a remote dev team, integrating with another softw
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by anbende 7y ago
Let me see if I can address or clarify a few of these points: >> the assertion that mindfulness training doesn’t belong in the boardroom seems silly to me > Technically, the author didn't say this, but rather pointed out some
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by anbende 7y ago
Two things. The first is that mindfulness is a Western word inspired by Eastern teachings. The word mindfulness didn’t exist 2000 years ago, and the Buddhist concepts are always very nuanced and often hotly debated inside the various school
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by anbende 7y ago
I agree that in a larger sense, there are often greater problems at work than the internal regulation of attention and stress. From working with clients however, you might be surprised just how often people come in not realizing that they h
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by anbende 7y ago
Yes, and while I don’t teach corporate mindfulness currently, I have colleagues who do, and I believe they do so responsibly. When done well, it will sometimes pick up speed and initiate rather profound changes in corporate culture. Not alw
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by anbende 7y ago
I wholeheartedly agree, and to the extent that a program is simply soothing, then there isn’t any actual mindful attention training happening. That’s my primary point, that attention training isn’t a salve, it’s awareness building. The prob
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by anbende 7y ago
Yes, and I saw that the author made this point as well. But again, mindfulness isn’t a stress lowering switch, it’s literally training in awareness of what is happening in one’s field of experience which includes a toxic environment if pres
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by anbende 7y ago
Clinical psychologist who teaches and practices mindfulness here. I often hear the argument that the current applications of mindfulness in corporate or otherwise commercial settings are a perversion of the original teachings. While to some
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by anbende 7y ago
I think the implication here is that it’s a linguistic dialogue.
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by anbende 7y ago
What would you suggest, and what contexts do you think .05 would be appropriate for, if any?
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by anbende 7y ago
That's actually a very interesting observation. I've taken herbal supplements that (supposedly) increase testosterone in the past. In particular, Longjack extract led to a marked increase in stubbornness, argumentativeness, and us
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by anbende 7y ago
I can identify with the feeling. Thinking back on the period of my late teens and early 20s, I had a lot of strong opinions on things. And I'd read about them. I could call upon information on those topics. I could cite the source wher
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by anbende 7y ago
Or so he could constantly play below his skill level as the matching system would think he was worse than he is. If he was doing that on ladder, that’s generally considered to be bad form.
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by anbende 7y ago
Right, but this doesn’t necessarily negate the point as the adults are not immersed to the sane degree as the children. Speaking to each other in their native language. Reading and watching media in their native language etcetera.
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by anbende 8y ago
This is only relevant if your clearing bit coins above the cost of the electricity. If not, you’re losing more turning them on than off.
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by anbende 8y ago
Redistribution is always from the rich to the proletariat. “To” not “by”. I’ve pointed out that the proletariat is, on average, less expert and trained. You may disagree with this point, but I haven’t redefined anything. Instead, I’ve attem
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by anbende 8y ago
True, and it was more a failed experiment in central planning than a massacre of the landowners.
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by anbende 8y ago
You asked for times when forced redistribution of wealth caused problems. I complied. In the Russian case a major problem was that the means of production (farms and farm machinery) were taken from those who knew how to use and manage them
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by anbende 8y ago
But if we doubled the absolute income of the bottom 90%, that’s good regardless of what happens to Bezos yes?
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by anbende 8y ago
The Cultural Revolution and the rise of Soviet Russia resulted in widespread famine leading to the deaths of tens of millions of people in each country. It turns out that just handing the reins of power to an untrained and inexpert proletar
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by anbende 8y ago
My apologies for being a little unclear. I hadn’t meant to take issue with a particular product. I’m taking issue with particular customers for particular products. If my company is selling ICBM guidance systems to sub-Saharan dictators, th

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