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| Topic | The many problems that encompass depression as a diagnosis for scientific study |
| COVxy 12/31/18 11:52:55 AM #2 | Up --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | The many problems that encompass depression as a diagnosis for scientific study |
| COVxy 12/31/18 8:57:20 AM #1 | (And are analogous in other psychiatric disorders) https://twitter.com/EikoFried/status/935098850439847937 It's a really good thread. One of the primary reasons why psychiatry hasn't made much progress and why drug treatment has been so ineffective is the bad diagnostic criteria. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Should poor people be allowed to vote? |
| COVxy 12/30/18 9:51:04 PM #26 | Hatred of poor people is a pretty unsavory gimmick, broseph. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Anyone watch/play that Bandersnatch Netflix thing? |
| COVxy 12/29/18 6:18:19 PM #12 | Idk, I haven't quite figured it out. On the surface, it was an okay but super shallow episode. I have a feeling that there's more to it though. I did, however, like that the choices were built to create the same sense of futility that the main character was feeling. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Controversial treatment transfuses blood from teenages to reverse aging process. |
| COVxy 12/29/18 5:09:58 PM #55 | NeonOctopus posted... LightHawKnight posted...Rich people have been trying this for years now, why is this suddenly news? I mean, it sounds like ridiculous science fiction shit, so i can understand the response. But it's actually not so crazy when you realize there's a prior literature for it. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Controversial treatment transfuses blood from teenages to reverse aging process. |
| COVxy 12/29/18 8:49:44 AM #53 | tote_all posted... @COVxy posted...I mean, there's good science behind the idea. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature10357 https://www.nature.com/articles/nature03260 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22226359/ https://www.nature.com/articles/nm.3569 These are just the ones I read for a class once, I'm sure there's a larger literature out there. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | COVxy I need your help! |
| COVxy 12/28/18 3:02:30 PM #2 | If it's through the scientific method, then it's psychology, if it's introspection, then it's philosophy. Idk, most of psychology doesn't quite probe conscious thought in that sense though. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Did anyone see Holmes and Watson? |
| COVxy 12/27/18 9:43:41 PM #18 | I think this type of parody would work with comedians like Abbot and Costello. Like, intelligently being stupid, rather than stupidly being stupid. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | nyc in the sky what the hell is going on? |
| COVxy 12/27/18 9:28:02 PM #15 | Apparently a fire knocked out a transformer in astoria or something. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Theres a video of Kevin Spacey assaulting the busboy. |
| COVxy 12/27/18 2:49:28 PM #16 | This incident being reported seems more loose than the Aziz story. In the Aziz story, there were direct "no" statements. In this one, there's no indication that the dude told him he didn't want the attention, even accepted drinks and continued hanging out with him after clear indications that he was interested sexually. The whole celebrity status makes it complicated and potentially coercive, but if this is the rope to hang him, it seems awfully thin. Idk, I'm not necessarily defending the actions, it's inappropriate to hit on anyone just trying to do their job, but almost seems like people are being more harsh here because the encounter was of a homosexual nature. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/27/18 2:17:55 PM #102 | Atralis posted... Its always been common knowledge in psychology that many prominent theories of the past have ended up being nonsense (Think Freud) Essentially Psychology resembles very little of what it looked like prior to the 1950's, as aside from the psychophysicist's of the late 1800's and the uprising of behaviorism in the early 1900's, it was back when psychology was much more like philosophy than anything else. Using anything prior as an example is kinda silly. It is true that formal theory is something that is lacking is psychology, in the same way it is lacking in biology. This is changing, but it's slow. This isn't to say that psychology is resting on poor legs. I have very little doubt in my mind that the large majority of core results in cognitive psychology will replicate every time. Hell, with most of these experiments, you can perform a single experiment on yourself and get pretty robust results (we did this in my cognitive psychology class in undergrad, 9/10 experiments I had data collected from myself that were robust in the same direction as the results from the literature). A visual search of a single feature will always be robustly faster than a visual search for a conjunction feature. Conjunction search will always scale with number of items while single feature search will not. In fact, if you look at the replication efforts, it's easy to predict what results will replicate and what won't. Psychologists predict this better than the public, but even the public is good at this. There's been a culture in science, and particularly within social psychology, to push flashy unexpected results. And it should be no surprise that if a scientific result surprises anyone it is unlikely to replicate. So a culture of biased publishing, selective reporting, and p-hacking descended upon social psychology in particular. But this isn't uniform across psychology, and it exists across all subdomains of science, more in some than others, but all fall prey to these biased incentives. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/27/18 12:05:50 PM #96 | Atralis posted... This is the big issue with psychology. The replication crisis extends across all scientific domains, not just psychology. Psychology is just the field at the forefront of trying to understand it and make changes to the scientific culture to ensure better practices. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/27/18 11:49:01 AM #93 | Conflict posted... User NameSterlingM Regardless as to whether he's trolling or not, there are dozens of people reading his posts and agreeing. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | The original HIMYM ending is perfect. I'm not wrong. |
| COVxy 12/27/18 11:18:30 AM #20 | YookaLaylee posted... COVxy posted...It was pretty clear that they didn't have the balls to stick with the original plan and just said fuck it, let's break up that marriage we spent an entire season building up just so that Ted has her available and we can just stick Ted with Robin like spineless pussies. Yeah, no, i mean break up Barnie and Robin. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | The original HIMYM ending is perfect. I'm not wrong. |
| COVxy 12/27/18 11:16:21 AM #17 | It was pretty clear that they didn't have the balls to stick with the original plan and just said fuck it, let's break up that marriage we spent an entire season building up just so that Ted has her available and we can just stick Ted with Robin like spineless pussies. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/27/18 10:27:36 AM #83 | SterlingM posted... So what I think you're trying to say is the brain takes input and the output is our senses. No, I didn't say that lol. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/27/18 9:33:40 AM #80 | I think you're just trolling at this point, but I'll make one more point. If you do not understand the link between input stimuli and output action, it's very easy to get lost in the trees. With a complex system like the brain, with many dynamic pieces performing many actions, it's incredibly hard to see the bigger picture. Understanding the input output relationships allows for grounding, for dynamically linked computations across the brain to make sense when grounded on the known input-output conversion. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/27/18 9:14:06 AM #77 | SterlingM posted... Yes its given definitions to things we all intuitively know You don't intuitively know it. Many properties of these phenomenon counter normal intuition. People just think they know how people work. You can think of psychology in the abstract, which might help you understand the goals and purposes of it. You have general input, stimuli, and you have output, behavior. By systematically manipulating the input and examining what happens to the output, you can get an idea as to what that blackbox function is doing. This is essentially David Marr's algorithmic level of abstraction. Neuroscientists care about how the brain does these things, how it implements those computations, that's essentially at David Marr' implementation level of abstraction. See, both are important levels to study. While they can get at similar questions, and the end run for neuroscientists is to understand how these computations are necessarily constrained by the brain's architecture, both level of analysis are important and are often asking very different questions. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/27/18 9:02:23 AM #72 | SterlingM posted... and what has psychology contributed You realize this is a silly question right? I'm not going to summarize the psychological literature for you. One because i don't really have the expertise for that (though, nor does any one psychologist), two because that's a silly waste of my time. Psychology has shown, empirically, the properties of memory encoding, memory recall, attention, visual perception, etc... --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/27/18 8:57:32 AM #70 | SterlingM posted... oh what is science about? Almost entirely incremental knowledge gain. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/27/18 8:46:17 AM #68 | 'Breakthrough'? You misunderstand science in general. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/27/18 8:42:39 AM #66 | SterlingM posted... i'd love to be proven wrong, psychology hasn't done that If you've read a single journal article on psychology I would be surprised. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/27/18 8:32:25 AM #64 | SterlingM posted... I didn't say that was recent, I just haven't seen any evidence to the contrary and that blog highlighted some "research" Why do you feel so confident waving off a field you know nothing about? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Controversial treatment transfuses blood from teenages to reverse aging process. |
| COVxy 12/27/18 7:51:27 AM #33 | Tyranthraxus posted... hockeybub89 posted...If it works, then whatever I guess Seems to work in rodents, across many different preparations. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/27/18 7:38:49 AM #62 | SterlingM posted... I'm sure psychology has been overlapping neurology more recently Which is a different (still wrong though) argument from the one you just made ("psychology is conventional wisdom not science"). --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/26/18 6:17:22 PM #53 | g980 posted... how would you compare a bachelors in psych to a bachelors in mathematics? Perception and selection bias. Not the smartest most motivated students are drawn to the psych degree, tbh. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/26/18 5:54:19 PM #51 | rikasa posted... SchoolForAnts posted...Are there any jobs that require a bachelors degree, without mattering in what? Or even a masters degree, but no matter in what?? I mean, students really shouldn't be entering college without any goal in mind. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/26/18 3:24:23 PM #44 | No. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Society has become too medicated : Antidepressants, antianxiety, painkillers |
| COVxy 12/26/18 2:00:19 PM #9 | Anti-psychiatric medication stances are extremely detrimental to society. Think whatever you may, but keep your bullshit to yourself. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/26/18 9:01:28 AM #27 | SchoolForAnts posted... I really feel we live in a fucked up system when a bachelors degree is NOT an adequate qualification for work in a specific field. Sure, you may not be anyones first choice, but at least you should be able to earn a living with said degree, or else the system is just a fucking joke. I mean, different fields require different amount of training. You wouldn't want there to be untrained doctors out there, just as you wouldn't want untrained clinical psychologists. Then, any other path in psychology is identical to any other path in the sciences, in terms of amount of training. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/25/18 10:27:39 PM #18 | SchoolForAnts posted... Pitlord_Special posted...I have a BS in psychology (as my second degree, primary degree is in biochemistry earned concurrently) and dont even bother mentioning it most of the time A clinical psych PhD has a large research component and requires a dissertation while the PsyD has no research and requires no dissertation. Important to note that clinical psych PhDs are the only psych PhDs that can practice or have any focus on therapy at all. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Is psychology really a useless degree? |
| COVxy 12/25/18 7:45:27 PM #11 | SterlingM posted... yes since its gonna be supplanted by neurology As a neuroscientist, or at least one in training, with a psych degree, naw. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Tinder date ended poorly all because I told her that psych is a useless degree |
| COVxy 12/25/18 7:42:54 PM #53 | karlpilkington4 posted... I'm still on the fence on whether this date even happened. Lmao, of course it didn't. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Why do people get history degrees? |
| COVxy 12/25/18 2:00:42 PM #76 | rikasa posted... The days of paying for college to follow your passion are done. You can get every single ounce of information you'd learn from college online or in a book when it comes to a subject like History. Don't encourage that shit, you're just freely advertising a highly exploitative industry. Go to college to learn how to do an in-demand job. That never has been the purpose of academia, and the push to make it so is extremely detrimental to the culture of academia. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Controversial treatment transfuses blood from teenages to reverse aging process. |
| COVxy 12/24/18 11:29:40 PM #9 | MrMallard posted... This is fucked up. Literally feeding on our youth. I mean, there's good science behind the idea. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Director Kyle Newman Says Most of Hollywood Hates The Last Jedi; critics scared. |
| COVxy 12/24/18 3:36:00 PM #97 | BruceWayneJr posted... This Disney shit does nothing for me, but I'm grateful for TLJ because it brought me and the last girl I was with closer together. She liked TFA, I didn't, and we clashed over the direction of the franchise. After TLJ, she knew exactly what I was talking about and asked me to please show her some real Star Wars. I laughed and cringed and felt bad all at the same time. Pretty much the saddest display of a fake story I've ever seen. I bet you made love to her all night long after that, right? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Don't believe anyone who tells you that ''SJWs'' are a legitimate problem. |
| COVxy 12/24/18 3:22:37 PM #66 | AdviceMan posted... The Great Muta 22 posted...Just looking at his name it seems like a month ago he announced that he was launching another tour in the early part of next year, and still has been running smaller shows recently. And the tour next year is all major venues and major cities. And Netflix said they're willing to go ahead when he's ready for another season of Master of None, it was Aziz's decision to put the show on hold. Consensus was split because there was a conversation that needed to be had. The sheer amount of men coming out pretending like pressuring women into sex is just part of the game should have made that clear. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Integrative Medicine is the new bullshit woo |
| COVxy 12/24/18 3:18:37 PM #27 | If medicine were 100% science doctors probably wouldn't do much at all. That's not to say woo-woo bullshit should be tolerated, but I think people need to understand that medicine is just as much art as applied science. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Switch sounds like a downgrade if you list what it's missing |
| COVxy 12/24/18 10:12:17 AM #37 | CapnMuffin posted... For server side gaming it might not matter but games like Smash use player side for connection and wired makes a difference. I'd complain about that then, no dedicated servers is a crapshoot for online gaming regardless. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Switch sounds like a downgrade if you list what it's missing |
| COVxy 12/24/18 10:08:04 AM #33 | Irony posted... COVxy posted...I think the last time I worried about running on WiFi rather than ethernet was 2009. Is the bus really the bottleneck here? For gaming? For file transfer, absolutely. But for gaming? Idk, i have single digit ping on my universities wifi. Probably has more to do with, back in the day at least, the unreliability of the tech. If people are having a hard time gaming online with the switch, my guess is that it would be more likely due to the way the servers are hosted. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Switch sounds like a downgrade if you list what it's missing |
| COVxy 12/24/18 9:29:48 AM #24 | I think the last time I worried about running on WiFi rather than ethernet was 2009. Idk why anyone would willingly use ethernet these days, tbh, except for intranets. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | Director Kyle Newman Says Most of Hollywood Hates The Last Jedi; critics scared. |
| COVxy 12/24/18 9:07:14 AM #34 | It's the SJWs behind this! --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | people are such morons when it comes to science |
| COVxy 12/24/18 8:24:33 AM #73 | DarkRoast posted... COVxy posted...DarkRoast posted...Nobody waved it off jfc No technical definition in this sense, so in the normal, importance. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | people are such morons when it comes to science |
| COVxy 12/24/18 8:11:24 AM #71 | DarkRoast posted... Nobody waved it off jfc Either you were arguing that it's unimportant because inheritance is debatable, or you didn't wave it off. One or the other, not both. Choose one. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | people are such morons when it comes to science |
| COVxy 12/24/18 8:06:27 AM #69 | Kineth posted... It's a salient point to say that methylation isn't as bad as genetic mutations and shifting bases, etc. etc. If your issue is that you thought it was being completely dismissive, I can understand that, but you've gotta understand that methylation of DNA happens regularly. The point is that it happens regularly. Gene methylation mediates a lot of normal biological function, and therefore changes in it can lead to a lot of changes to normal functioning. I'm not over here arguing one is "worse" than the other (highly context dependent, as both can simply part of normal functioning). Just that waving off observed changes in methylation is silly. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | people are such morons when it comes to science |
| COVxy 12/24/18 7:46:37 AM #66 | DarkRoast posted... COVxy posted...Changes in methylation are biologically important, full stop. It's silly to wave off changes in methylation. That's the point I was making. You either misread the OP and doubled down on it, or are just being silly. Based on the OP, this wouldn't haven't very much direct relation to inheritance of epigenetic effects. It certainly could, but that would be a stupid fucking reading of it because inheritance of epigenetic changes is rare at best, with no evidence in humans. The OP makes it clear that changes were observed in the children, not the parents. If it said "gene changes in parents potentially leading to harm in offspring" your comment would have been reasonable. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | people are such morons when it comes to science |
| COVxy 12/24/18 7:39:56 AM #64 | Changes in methylation are biologically important, full stop. It's silly to wave off changes in methylation. That's the point I was making. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | people are such morons when it comes to science |
| COVxy 12/24/18 7:14:26 AM #62 | Kineth posted... COVxy posted...DarkRoast posted...If this is related to methylation and not mutation rate, the actual significance is debatable. You bumped a dead topic to comment on a post while ignoring all the subsequent discussion on said post? --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
| Topic | When you meet someone and they start saying "Problematic" |
| COVxy 12/23/18 2:03:43 PM #2 | This topic is bad and you should feel bad. --- =E[(x-E[x])(y-E[y])] |
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