Here's a fun, stupid game: guess the correlation. http://guessthecorrelation.com/ A random scatterplot is given and you have to guess the...
Yes, but they only had 14 patients at 6-month follow-up so the lack of statistical significance could simply be due to this small sample size.
Sounds interesting because the differences between groups are enormous, especially since they didn't use healthy controls but patients with other...
Thought this was an interesting study: Blinding in randomised clinical trials of psychological interventions: a retrospective study of published...
Here's the COVID-19 symptom questionnaire (CSQ) they used:...
In a sensitivity analysis, the authors also looked at predictors of those who scored equal or above the median CSQ or those with any symptom-CSQ...
The confidence interval suggests that it was just statistically significant, which makes me a bit suspicious. Instead of giving a definition of...
To be honest, many of these studies do not sound so exciting or promising. As @cassava7 said, there doesn't seem to be much fundamental research....
Thanks! There's also this study by Wessely and colleagues which reports "Our data supports the anecdotal belief that chronic fatigue syndrome...
This seems to be reported quite consistently in the ME/CFS community. I wonder if patients with other chronic, fatiguing illnesses also consume...
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The effect size they report is enormous: a cohen's d of 1.34. For a comparison of effect size for some common treatments see here: How effective...
So we might need something more absurd than the Lightning Process?
This study looked at how studies that tested a hypothesis, reported positive findings per scientific discipline. It reports that: "Space Science...
Abstract The hypothesis of a Hierarchy of the Sciences with physical sciences at the top, social sciences at the bottom, and biological sciences...
Some of the most questionable research practices in the survey were "“Not submitting or resubmitting valid negative studies for publication" and...
I suspect there is less fraud in the BPS literature on ME/CFS because the authors can use many other techniques to fabricate positive findings,...
More than half of Dutch scientists regularly engage in questionable research practices, such as hiding flaws in their research design or...
Sad news from the Netherlands where a patient with ME/CFS was denied benefits. He had to go to court in a gurney....
I've finally found a useful overview of findings in psychology that were once in high esteem but are now refuted. See:...
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