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Interesting news
Feb. 9th, 2009 10:32 amI think this is "Questionable Data Day" in science news.
First, via gollum: we learn that the doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research.
Thanks a lot, bud.
And here's a new study: Time Watching TV in Adolescence Linked to Depression in Future. This sounds like an interesting result, until you read that their big finding is that "while about 6 percent of those who watched under three hours a day were depressed, more than 17 percent of those who watched more than nine hours a day had depressive symptoms.
9 hours a day????!!! In the school year????
Who has that kind of time, and what the hell is wrong with their lives? Answer that question, and you may well find out why they're depressed years later.
And here we learn that Education is all in Your Mind. I was interested in the first few reports, but by the time I got to the end of the article I was all skeptical again. Sure, positive thinking and expectations are important, but I didn't see a control group referred to in these results. There's a lot of "post hoc" thinking going on here.
First, via gollum: we learn that the doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research.
Thanks a lot, bud.
And here's a new study: Time Watching TV in Adolescence Linked to Depression in Future. This sounds like an interesting result, until you read that their big finding is that "while about 6 percent of those who watched under three hours a day were depressed, more than 17 percent of those who watched more than nine hours a day had depressive symptoms.
9 hours a day????!!! In the school year????
Who has that kind of time, and what the hell is wrong with their lives? Answer that question, and you may well find out why they're depressed years later.
And here we learn that Education is all in Your Mind. I was interested in the first few reports, but by the time I got to the end of the article I was all skeptical again. Sure, positive thinking and expectations are important, but I didn't see a control group referred to in these results. There's a lot of "post hoc" thinking going on here.
