Quite. If the full PACE data were available I'm sure much better insights could be gained about how meaningful - or meaningless - there claims...
That's not quite right. The 2011 PACE paper has four mentions of "postexertional malaise", though I suspect they bandied the term around without...
A question @Jonathan Edwards: When a normally healthy person goes down with a really nasty bout of flu, they feel pretty ghastly as we all know....
Agreed, honesty has to be the best policy. Anything else would be a slippery slope. Edit: Realise that could be misconstrued as a slur on your...
Exactly. Both will result in skewed answers, but how much is attributable to each of those two factors will be indeterminable.
Absolutely. Which is why I think it is time to properly highlight that their trials exhibit a form of bias that has perhaps not been fully exposed...
Attempting operate as an expert system, but with highly dubious expertise in a lot of scenarios.
Yes, the treatment programme builds in skewing of people's beliefs, perceptions, etc, and that is true no matter if anyone asks them about those...
Understood. It's just that people being what they are, some will ignore your hyphen and insert their own! Maybe some word other than response ......
In a way that sums it up perfectly.
I realise that in my posts here about treatment-inherent cognitive bias (or whatever we eventually decide to call it) I may have been giving the...
Not sure about that one @Invisible Woman, for two reasons. The word "response" here will be muddling two meanings of that word. Response bias is...
'' 'The requirement to control for placebo problems will make it too difficult to “get an effect”' We actually do see this (or something close...
Yes. The intended outcome of these treatments is to shift cognitions, it is not merely a side-effect of the treatment. So I think...
Yes I like that also. I think it important to include the 'cognitive' bit, because it is the shift in cognitions as an outcome of the treatment -...
Yes, you can imagine a 15 stone person answering a survey question asking their weight. If they say 15 stone then no problems. But they might...
Yes, that is so weird! Trialling a treatment, the point being to gather evidence of its efficacy, but a component part of that treatment being to...
This sounds akin to the problem that used to occur with older style voltmeters, Avo voltmeters etc, where the very act of connecting the meter...
In which case the dominant bias operating here is not response bias. All manner of things might influence how someone responds to a questionnaire,...
Yes, me too. Very much so. CBT is a powerful tool. Abuse of any powerful tool can be harmful, which is why you don't put them into the hands of...
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