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by caddemon 5y ago
"I won that race, and I'm grateful. But time after time, I have lost. I’ve lost four women’s state championship titles, two all-New England awards, and numerous other spots on the podium to male runners. I was bumped to third plac
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by caddemon 5y ago
It is possible for there to be multiple modes of transmission, and there is good evidence to suggest droplet transmission plays a meaningful role in COVID spread. How much it contributes versus airborne transmission may be debatable, but th
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I'm not sure about that honestly. At the extreme there's definitely COVID deniers who followed no precautions, but IME most "normal" people I know felt more comfortable spending time indoors with masks than they would ha
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by caddemon 5y ago
That study also focuses on influenza which does not transmit quite the same way as COVID. A bunch of these links were the same thing being shared in the early days of COVID by doctors claiming that masks did not work. Obviously most healthc
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by caddemon 5y ago
The RCTs I have seen with basic surgical masks also seem to focus only on protection of the wearer, whereas on a societal level wearing even a shitty mask may be helping to prevent spread by presymptomatic people. I think it is unlikely the
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by caddemon 5y ago
That may be a factor, but getting married later is also just correlated with a higher level of education. It's very rare for someone that goes to college to get married before graduation. But in poorer areas it is not uncommon to see p
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by caddemon 5y ago
It is definitely not expensive to play soccer in the US, unless this is another weird Bay Area thing. To play in an official rec league like she mentioned does have a bit more cost associated, but in NYC area every league I've seen is
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by caddemon 5y ago
I'm sure the original research article treats it with more nuance, but that's not at all what the linked article is implying: "a gendered world creates a gendered brain, and not the brain itself". Further, there are plen
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by caddemon 5y ago
I'm extremely skeptical of the claim that male aggression is purely environmental. Higher aggression in males is seen in many species of animals, and it is seen even in mouse models where they are kept in an extremely controlled enviro
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by caddemon 5y ago
J&J definitely does not have >90% efficacy
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by caddemon 5y ago
Biology has a replication crisis almost as bad as psychology. I agree with a lot of these criticisms but I wonder why we don't see articles questioning if biology is a science. Perhaps there was a period in the past where biology was m
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by caddemon 5y ago
This is mostly argument with regards to legal matters though, not actual outcomes of those with severe disabilities. Most sheltered workshops will shut down before being able to pay employees minimum wage. For those that legitimately are in
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by caddemon 5y ago
I'm not sure about the Goodwill program specifically, but some companies with disability work programs accept extremely disabled individuals who are literally more work to have there than they could possibly accomplish. It is meant as
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by caddemon 5y ago
People fuck up accidentally and then intentionally cover it up all the time.
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As I mentioned the further back you go the harder it is to say anything definitive. But I do think it's telling that depression rates keep rising, and this isn't even just a 21st century phenomenon. There are epidemiological studi
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yeah capitalism was much more ruthless in the early days of the US yet there seems to have been less depression (of course due to different societal factors surrounding diagnosis this can't be said with certainty). Even looking more re
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by caddemon 5y ago
The comment tone is way beyond advice and makes some bizarre claims about profit motives. Psychiatry is a hard subject and there has been some bad research, but it's pretty clear he has also done some reading on fringe sites. I underst
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by caddemon 5y ago
There are certainly issues with psychiatric disease diagnosis, but I also don't think it's surprising MDD diagnoses are high (the real number in that age bracket seems to be somewhere in the range of 10-20%). AFAIK the DSM criteri
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by caddemon 5y ago
I'm not sure these are good examples, but depressive realism is a pretty legit hypothesis about a potential evolutionary benefit. There's also some hypotheses about energy expenditure - doing nothing is sometimes the right move, a
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by caddemon 5y ago
Negativity bias is associated with depression, but healthy people display positivity bias. Someone with severe depression is probably not accurately assessing risks, but it's plausible to me that mild/moderate depression patients
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by caddemon 5y ago
I'm a little confused on the reason this talk was cancelled. It seems that nearly the entire talk is critical of Facebook/Google, but the organizer only complains about a handful of slides. It looks like they were fine with claims
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by caddemon 5y ago
I don't think that link says the fired researchers are getting job offers? The only mention of job offers I see is Mitchell's tweet, which from the context seems to be about colleagues of hers currently at Google getting offers el
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by caddemon 5y ago
IME people in the US almost exclusively use "is" in this context, but it definitely is weird to actually think about it.
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by caddemon 5y ago
You're totally right I would definitely always say "my favorite team is", and probably also would say "my favorite is". I think the subject of the sentence is what determines it grammatically, also since that's
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by caddemon 5y ago
Yeah it's definitely caused by the team name being plural, or at least sounding plural - I've never heard anyone say "The Red Sox is good" either. Regardless of what is technically grammatically correct I think real life
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by caddemon 5y ago
Not doubting what is officially grammatically correct, but that still sounds really weird to me. Like with sports teams I would only ever say "The Patriots are a good team" or "New England is a good team". Not "The
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by caddemon 5y ago
I agree it's probably not creative thinking, but I also kind of doubt the doctors identified specific triggers unless he did an extended in-patient monitoring stay. One of my friends, who in daily life on meds would have 1 or 2 major
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by caddemon 5y ago
I think the bigger issue with that statement is it reinforces the idea that mental issues are somehow meaningfully different than physical ones, and it's vindicating to identify a physical issue when a mental one was expected. IMO ment
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by caddemon 5y ago
Reducing stress is something a lot of us could benefit from, but there are also some underlying medical issues that can be exacerbated by stress. If you are still getting migraines you might want to see another doctor. They aren't supe
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by caddemon 5y ago
That Twitter thread was interesting, thanks! Looks like later in the thread they seem to suggest mRNA vaccine hesitancy hasn't necessarily increased, so I don't think it's as concerning as the first graph makes it seem. But w

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