crackedbassoon

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by crackedbassoon 1y ago
I appreciate what you did there.
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by crackedbassoon 1y ago
> I would have much rather liked an appeal to the public showing data and analysis of what all of that science funding has accomplished for the people paying for it. Literally from the article: As one measure of its impact, the NIH supp
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by crackedbassoon 2y ago
That paper is extremely weak. Look at the confidence intervals surrounding the hazard ratios. There is almost no effect for paracetamol and the difference between paracetamol and ibuprofen is negligible. If this is the evidence, I’m not con
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
Not saying it’s irrelevant (though non critical reviews like this are not very valuable), but the parent wrote “here is one”, as in here is a study. I’m pointing out is not a study.
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
That study actually did NOT find that Vit D reduced autoimmune disease rate. P=.05 means not significant (it needs to be <.05). Pretty gigantic blunder by the researchers to be honest.
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
That is an uncritical review, not a study.
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
Do you support SSML and other languages besides English? The demo site suggests not, and I couldn’t explore further without signing up. This service might be cheaper than Google at scale, but if I needed 60M chars a month I’d probably care
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
Only one time.
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
They estimated SNP heritability via GCTA.
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
Intuition tells me it would be harder to achieve a precise measurement of ear protrusion than of a larger body part. This could be wrong of course, but it is generally good scientific practice to think about measurement errors when comparin
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
Yes exactly this. And with noisier measures come lower correlations.
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
Ear protrusion is heritable: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8500
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
Strange that an article by someone interested in Bayesian statistics (according to the website banner) would not consider measurement error here. It seems likely to me that ear measurements are harder to make accurately than measurements of
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
What do you mean?
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
For sound, dB is shorthand for dB SPL, or dBs above 20 μPa, which is roughly the threshold of human hearing. So 0 dB means 1:1 with that threshold, or essentially “silent”. I think most people would intuitively conclude as much without know
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
Thanks; I’ll take a look at those papers.
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
I’m a psychoacoustician and I’ve studied auditory perception my whole career. The statement “we use auditory stimulation to increase the efficiency of deep sleep” sounds like snake oil. I’m not saying such a thing is impossible, it just sou
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by crackedbassoon 3y ago
The linked article is a meta analysis.
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by crackedbassoon 4y ago
To me it doesn’t mean either of those things. It means whatever it is serves as the basis of the thing. Evidence-based practice is based on evidence, it doesn’t comprise or consist of evidence.
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by crackedbassoon 4y ago
This comment confused me so I looked up the definition of homophone[0]. Turns out it can mean two words sounding the same (definition 2) or merely sounding alike (definition 1). Personally I always thought homophones had to sound identical.
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by crackedbassoon 4y ago
Pihole doesn’t block YouTube adds.
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by crackedbassoon 4y ago
In my opinion, not worth it. There are much better and shorter fantasy series out there.
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by crackedbassoon 4y ago
I’ve listened to 130 audiobooks in 2022 so far. I think I’ll get one more in before the new year but it won’t make this list. Some stood out: Greek Mythology series by Steven Fry. Not literary adaptations nor scholarly treatises; just acces
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by crackedbassoon 4y ago
I don’t understand this comment, do you mean Audible? I buy audiobooks with cash there all the time. I just checked and you can still do that.
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by crackedbassoon 4y ago
Unlike your Alzheimer’s example, hair cell loss is definitely the cause of hearing loss in many cases. There are other possible causes but this is the first or second most common biological antecedent. Basically, if we can regrow them, the
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by crackedbassoon 4y ago
Except it is actually quite easy to measure hearing thresholds in nonhumans as well as human babies via auditory brain responses (ABRs).
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by crackedbassoon 5y ago
This could be ‘hidden hearing loss’. It’s a catch-all term for hearing problems in noisy backgrounds even when sensitivity to quiet sounds (what is tested by an audiologist) is normal. It’s not clear what causes it, and it may not be one th