tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434495502175776916.post172708094398560074..comments2023-04-06T02:43:43.759-07:00Comments on Bitching my way to the Brightside: So I Read This Study...CrankyOtterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02863609824154763580noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434495502175776916.post-5106908665749219332008-05-09T10:11:00.000-07:002008-05-09T10:11:00.000-07:00I don't like studies that presuppose someone/-thin...I don't like studies that presuppose someone/-thing is an idiot or incapable. Especially when they then publish findings where they seem shocked to find dogs have feelings and chimps use tools, when anyone who's ever seen a dog for more than 20 seconds knows they have feelings. You'd think that after study after study shows that peers often have more influence on kids behavior than parents do that kids who are themselves socially maladapted are going to have problems that their parents can't really affect because they don't respond "normally" to peer pressure and they aren't on the receiving end of "normal" peer pressure anyway. There's always a study out about "low birth weight causes horrors X-ZZ" and I almost never read them because there's nothing to be done at that point but prevent future low birth weight babies, which we already knew. It's astonishing that people still get funding for that crap. Your heart attack at age 66 vs 67 because you weighed 2oz less at birth? Specious at best.<BR/><BR/>Anytime someone measures something, I have to look at the methodology though because it's way too easy to dial in the numbers you want to see. Even non-subjective measures can be "calibrated". I wrote a paper on measuring a 10A shift and fully half the paper was proving to myself and the audience that this 10A shift was real and not some noise in the data.<BR/><BR/><BR/>The "scientists believe" statements bother me a lot more than the studies. With the study, you can look at the conditions and see if their conclusions make sense. Monkey girl http://www2.gsu.edu/~psysfb/ Sarah Brosnan here does good work and seems to be a good egg.CrankyOtterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02863609824154763580noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3434495502175776916.post-35062377161447556322008-05-09T06:08:00.000-07:002008-05-09T06:08:00.000-07:00I hate studies, you and I both know they can twist...I hate studies, you and I both know they can twist stats to mean whatever they want.<BR/><BR/>Like this one... and is my friend www.whittereronautism.com ticked... and still very politely british too about it. http://www.trusera.com/users/maddy/stories/the-cost-of-autism<BR/>http://www.trusera.com/users/maddy/stories/chickens-and-eggs <BR/><BR/>But I'm with this one.. are we going to revert to the time of refrigerator mothers???http://autisminnb.blogspot.com/2008/05/autism-causation-back-to-bettelheim.html<BR/><BR/>Did I mention I have no use for studies??? Nor for those that don't understand the wonderful land of statistics and the ability to manipulate the information to make it work for their study...<BR/><BR/>Pet Peeve of mine... Can you tell??farmwifetwohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02680758336779501712noreply@blogger.com