You remind me of a very important point: including any more than one race has implications for study validity and could lead to bias in itself. If you include other races, you will need a larger sample size to allow controlling for race in your models, whether through regression or stratification. Limiting to one race…

I’m making the point that it is very unlikely the authors have some insidious conservative agenda and it is frustrating that people seek out these conspiracies where they don’t exist. You have to pick a population and you’re probably going to pick something that is convenient (not lazy, as you suggest; it is a…

What you describe is technically bias, but not in the way you think it is - ie, it is not a social or political bias, it is simply selection bias which is common in all research. One explanation is simply that you study a population that has a combination of convenience and generalizability. Like it or not, this…

I have a hard time defending an unhinged demographic that frequently uses racial and homophobic slurs, says “AIDS” and “cancer” incessantly, and has no grasp of cooperation. Raiding with randoms in Destiny was the worst. Anytime you played with a child, especially younger teenagers, it was guaranteed to go to hell. I…

The first Diablo game. I was around 8 years old when I played it and after making it to the second level of the cathedral, I opened the door to a room full of impaled bodies and gore with a monster yelling at me about fresh meat. I nearly shat myself. Probably did. But it was only the beginning. I still think the…

I get the feeling with these articles that people think not speaking out against injustice means you are somehow complicit in it. I hope everyone realizes that this is absurd in this particular case. Why do you continue to give these people attention and insist that others give them attention? I think a more powerful…

It amazes me that humans are willing to ignore the 99% of their days that are mundane or, dare I say positive, in favor of external factors over which they have no control and are of little immediate relevance. Here’s what I propose: notice the black mom and white mom discussing the difficulties of having a newborn in…

Explaining the strengths and limitations of this paper was Beth’s job. As brief as I can be: this analysis is based on a massive amount of data collected over a long time (nearly 5 million person-years) from reliable, well-established cohort studies with a high degree of internal validity (ie, good measurements). The…

For the people here who think they know how to design a study: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect

I sincerely do not mean to be combative, but you don’t know what you’re talking about, on several different fronts. The whole situation here is a train wreck. I never thought I’d see a well-conducted study published in JACC using massive amounts of data from the Nurses’ and HP studies labeled as preposterous. Beth…

Everything else aside, if you are asking your team for a healer, you’ve missed step 1, which is to change to a healer. Be the change you want to see in the (Overwatch) world.

A point of contention here: a meta-analysis is not automatically the truth. ESPECIALLY a meta-analysis of observational studies, as would be used in this evidence report. Just a few important questions: what confounders did each included study adjust for, how much heterogeneity was there, did each study use the same…

earthcharlie, you are correct. I’m an epidemiologist and wanted to echo what you said while expanding on why this article and a lot of health reporting bothers me. It’s more than semantics, if you can believe it.

When did Lifehacker become Jezebel?

Try the oven broiler; it has worked quite well in my experience. You run the risk of heating up the creme a little bit, but it’s usually not a problem.

You’re absolutely right. The phrase “in my day” should have come with clarification that I’ve taken tests recently. I’ve taken several computer-based tests on a few different platforms but they allowed you to move around, albeit awkwardly. If an educator is implementing an exam that does not allow you to move around…

Have you have you ever struggled to think of the name of a supporting actor you’re seeing on screen, only for it to come to you randomly at a later time? The idea here is similar. Your brain works on things in the subconscious (ie, background). It shouldn’t take away from your conscious focus.