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Improving the Measurement of Functional Somatic Symptoms With Item Response Theory, 2020, Acevedo-Mesa et al

Discussion in 'Research methodology news and research' started by Andy, Aug 8, 2020.

  1. Andy

    Andy Committee Member

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    Open access, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1073191120947153
     
  2. rvallee

    rvallee Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    So, mathemagics? If you torture the data long enough, it will eventually give you an answer. It won't be a relevant answer but you will be able to report that you have an answer.
    Sounds like either their sample is bad, their questions or bad, or both. Anyway this is a super category with many different things, you'd get a bunch of weird answers as well if you put it any number of unrelated diseases and waterboarded the data a little. Junk drawer indeed.
     
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    Snowdrop Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    It sounds like they might know something about performing data analysis. But it seems to me that this is inadequate for bringing to light any understanding of these health issues which would require a more nuanced understanding of what might be valid to start with IMO.
     
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