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12y ago
Fruit juice may be good for your telomeres, but there are plenty of other reasons to be suspicious of it---"bro-science" it is not. For example, Google "fruit juice and obesity" or see http://blogs.plos.org&#x
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In that case "rationality" basically means following the laws of probability theory given an existing statistical model. However, the process of arriving at the statistical model to begin with is fraught with areas of potential di
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12y ago
The (Shorter) Oxford English Dictionary says of "guy": 3. A man, a fellow; in pl. also (chiefly N. Amer.), people (of either sex). colloq. (orig. N. Amer.). One of the main situations I've seen "you guys" used is ac
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12y ago
"Two rational people cannot end up at [a] different conclusion" Wow. I couldn't disagree more. There's so much ambiguity in this world of ours that, even given a universally agreed upon definition of "rational"
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12y ago
But coincidence is a type of correlation, is it not?
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12y ago
You probably should care because antidepressants are not benign. They _are_ psychoactive and will have long-term effects on your brain, not to mention your liver and probably your gut. They induce strong dependence and are incredibly diffic
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12y ago
I'd been considering a project like this recently. I'd like some way of bringing the amount/timing/frequency of light I experience indoors closer to what I would experience were I in the outdoors, under the assumption th
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You'd have a stronger point if this study was an experimental intervention with binary outcomes. However, what this study was actually doing was fishing for correlations between various blood factors and depression. Thus the small samp
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12y ago
N=32 There you go
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Psychiatric drugs are not effective in treating mental illness---at least not more effective than placebo.