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CorsiHockeyLeague · 07-22-2022, 11:30 AM

This appears to be the actual study. I never understand why people want to read newspaper articles about this stuff rather than just look at what they actually said.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0

... What isn't clear to me is how they decided which people to include in the study group. The exclusion criteria is clear. But it seems to me that there are a bunch of people who get diagnosed with depression who simply report symptoms that sound like outward depression symptoms. That would explain why there would be a bunch of noise in the data about neurotransmitter levels... Someone explain to me why I'm off base here.

07-22-2022, 11:30 AM	#29
CorsiHockeyLeague Franchise Player Join Date: Feb 2015 Exp:	This appears to be the actual study. I never understand why people want to read newspaper articles about this stuff rather than just look at what they actually said. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-022-01661-0 ... What isn't clear to me is how they decided which people to include in the study group. The exclusion criteria is clear. But it seems to me that there are a bunch of people who get diagnosed with depression who simply report symptoms that sound like outward depression symptoms. That would explain why there would be a bunch of noise in the data about neurotransmitter levels... Someone explain to me why I'm off base here. __________________ "The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno