Re:Nootropics Survey Results And Analysis
by yummyfajitas on Sunday February 16, 2014 @09:52PM
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The author would do well to study fundamental principles of statistics...
If only the author understood this. Then he might have written this in the fifth paragraph: "They tend to “outpace” the scientific literature, using some substances that haven’t yet been shown to work...people combine a bewildering variety of chemicals without being sure which ones work better than others or even whether any of them work at all.
This survey does not intend to rectify this state of affairs"
He might also have written in the conclusion: "Overall I was not too impressed with the results of this survey. No unexpected substances jumped out as promising, there was a very wide distribution from “useless” to “life-changing” in nearly everything except the -afinils, and it was very hard to find much of a dose-response relationship anywhere."
"Other goals for the future are to drag people kicking and screaming into reading directions so I know everyone’s rating off the same scale..."
Not every blog post needs to rise to the level of double blind clinical trial.
Re:Nootropics Survey Results And Analysis
by otl1248 on Sunday February 16, 2014 @11:22PM
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Sounds to me more like a justification for presenting useless statistics and allowing 'outpacers' to give themselves more confirmation bias (which those communities already provide in spades).
If only the author understood this. Then he might have written this in the fifth paragraph: "They tend to “outpace” the scientific literature, using some substances that haven’t yet been shown to work...people combine a bewildering variety of chemicals without being sure which ones work better than others or even whether any of them work at all.
This survey does not intend to rectify this state of affairs"
He might also have written in the conclusion: "Overall I was not too impressed with the results of this survey. No unexpected substances jumped out as promising, there was a very wide distribution from “useless” to “life-changing” in nearly everything except the -afinils, and it was very hard to find much of a dose-response relationship anywhere."
"Other goals for the future are to drag people kicking and screaming into reading directions so I know everyone’s rating off the same scale..."
Not every blog post needs to rise to the level of double blind clinical trial.