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Me and my environmentalist homies were executed by the former capitalists:(

I meant to imply the author was in good faith and not an industry plant like other white papers in the journal have been. I actually read the paper and don’t feel the need to prove my identity to you in a forum in order to have an opinion. I think it’s obvious and most people in adjacent fields would think so. The author acknowledges it as well which I mentioned. Also said nothing about p-hacking, I definitely don’t think that.

This is an unreviewed white paper, they’re putting it out looking for feedback.

I don’t read this one as a total plant, but I don’t think the methodology great. Using a ucla cohort study that’s been in progress since 2024 (quarterly questionnaires) the author compares two groups.

1. People who received treatment
2. People who didn’t receive treatment but indicated that they would like to in future (control group)

Clearly not an excellent control group for the kind of claims she wants to make.

She puts effort into statistically ‘matching’ a bunch of parameters to try to make it a better control group. She also discusses this as a possible issue in the text and tries to give some statistical evidence but I don’t find it very convincing. Doubt it will ultimately get published.

Stereotypes are annoying, but I think a necessary human condition. Until you know someone your judgements about them are largely going to be uninformed and wrong, but I think it’s too much to ask people to drop all assumptions and meet every stranger as a radical individual. Each of us gets used to the stereotypes people apply to us and we either make accommodations to counter them or we just accept that people will be wrong about us, especially where we deviate from the norm. It’s a byproduct of the fact that we see the world in groups when it’s really made of individuals.

Ofc some assumptions can be straight up dangerous for people and we should try to stamp those out.

Big O

I like the golden retriever more

Sounds like it’s not a very pleasant treatment:(

Excellent, I’ll keep this in mind for the apocalypse, 25% ain’t nothin’

… does it cure syphilis though?