Brilliant, @rvallee!
Oh absolutely, we should show empathy for these researchers. Some probably genuinely believe in their own claims about the causes and treatment of...
I wanted to draw people's attention to some interesting bits in this paper. They include a section where they address what are common...
I still hold by my argument that these folks defending the status quo for psyc trials would make a huge ruckus if anyone tried to publish a...
Ha. You ask them if they are ok with magical healing crystals benefitting from "expectancy effects", you will find a very different answer. I've...
The problem IS expectancy effects, @Snow Leopard (among other things). They are the primacy mechanism that gives rise to the response bias. As...
Thanks, @Michiel Tack! I just independently re-read your previous thread and came here now to link to it myself!
Full reference: Boot, W. R., Simons, D. J., Stothart, C., & Stutts, C. (2013). The pervasive problem with placebos in psychology: Why active...
Just thinking on it more, its probably really hard for people like Garner and Greenfield, because they are fully convinced that what they are...
Full reference: Berger, D. (2015). Double-blinding and bias in medication and cognitive-behavioral therapy trials for major depressive disorder....
I think if people use their work persona as a means to promote personal opinions and ideas that have nothing to do with their work, then they...
They are looking for an excuse to dump some people from their participant pool, so they can make their outcomes look better. They didn't find it...
I just found this, a review which mentions a study of Fatigue reports in "CFS" (by Friedberg and co), which found the opposite effect - real time...
I looked into this some time ago, and got the impression that daily experience sampling (e.g. noting your symptoms daily) generally resulted in...
"Performance validity" is a concept from neuropsychology. It refers to tests or analyses that are designed to "catch out" people who are faking,...
Oh, the irony. He just doesn't seem to see the self-contradiction at all. Fussing about whether a blinded trial was fully blinded when most of...
Just came across this and thought it might be of interest (its not new, its from 2004) Moncrieff, J., Wessely, S., & Hardy, R. (2004). Active...
I agree with you, Peter. I don't think its helpful to personify the muddy thinking and glib ideology that characterises psychological approaches...
To me, the main feature of MECFS that makes it hard to explain in terms of some chronic infection is that its features are remarkably similar...
What's all this talk about entrenched points of view? As if we're talking about a political issues? Where talking about what constitutes reliable...
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