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The Venn Diagram of Irrational Nonsense

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This is brilliant…wonder if its available as a t-shirt to send to people…

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Categories: Get Your Shit Together, History and Science, Trading PsychologyBy Chris TateMarch 27, 20138 Comments

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8 Comments

  1. Troy says:
    March 27, 2013 at 12:53 pm

    As good as this is I’ve been thinking about something simpler and punchier to put on a t-shirt that I’ve heard someone say before:

    Unfortunately that’s not the way the world works!

    I just cannot remember who that someone was…

  2. Tyrone says:
    March 27, 2013 at 4:47 pm

    I am going to have to challenge accupuncture being on there only because:
    http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1357513

    In its place I would like to substitute “ear candling”.
    Which has been shown beyond doubt to be just as effective when it is stuck up your @&$#

    • Chris says:
      March 28, 2013 at 6:48 am

      Two things –

      1. Its a meta analysis so unless the science in each of the studies they examined is good all you have done is lump crap studies together in the hope that the good ones outweigh the bad. Meta analysis is a little like the scientific worlds version of a CDO – stick crap in something and hope that people dont notice.

      2. From there conclusion –

      Significant differences between true and sham acupuncture indicate that acupuncture is more than a placebo. However, these differences are relatively modest, suggesting that factors in addition to the specific effects of needling are important contributors to the therapeutic effects of acupuncture.

      They use the word significant but I do not think they know what it means because they then use the word modest to describe the difference between their significant results.

      • Tyrone says:
        March 28, 2013 at 3:21 pm

        I agree with both your points. In this meta study however they got the raw data themselves from each study and did their own analysis.

        As to the raw data, I can’t acess that but there is a summary on the abc australia website with an interview with one of the research team. They reported the effect as well above no intervention, and above the placebo condition of sham accupuncture.
        Again not the actual paper unfortunately, but more on the methodology of their report and findings:

        http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-11/study-shows-acupuncture-works/4254244

        As always, appreciate your bollox detection radar.

        Tye

  3. Meisha says:
    March 29, 2013 at 2:40 pm

    It goes without saying that all scientific research needs to be able to withstand rigorous scrutiny.

    But, now let’s step into life.

    Sometimes it is the process and the path travelled that is more important. Sometimes the outcome.

    In an instances like this, isn’t it the outcome that counts? If the individual feels better and subjectively experiences less pain that is what is important.

    • Tye says:
      March 29, 2013 at 9:37 pm

      Meisha at a certain level yes. But the guiding principal to that has to be, “first do no harm”.

      And that is hard to meet when you are deceiving someone.So for really little things, like kissing my sons bump on his knee better, that is perfect. For much bigger than that, I would not like to go down that path too far.

      • Meisha says:
        March 30, 2013 at 1:35 pm

        Hi Tye,

        There are a few points here.

        There is actually a fair amount of evidence suggesting that a lot of medical intervention is not much better than placebo. Or indeed, possibly nothing but placebo.

        Who decides what is “harm”?

        Rather than “deception”, I think many problems arise when interpretations and/or intentions are misaligned.

  4. Troy says:
    March 31, 2013 at 5:38 pm

    I can’t fit any of these other comments on a t-shirt.:(

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