"It’s possible Hari addresses my concerns, and many others, in the full book. I’ve not read it yet." Get back to me when you do read the book then. http://bit.ly/2FW2p8a
This is from his Huffpost piece. It's all either incorrect or misleading - the improvement in sleep patterns is associated with, not causal of, improvements in depression scores, and the reference to the 1.8 improvement is to a study that doesn't show that at allpic.twitter.com/tzEza0d1hV
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The idea that depression is all about "chemical imbalance" hasn't been mainstream since the 70s, any psych course in the world should go into social determinants to some extentpic.twitter.com/myPfj3J8GX
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Basically, he takes a strawman argument of what medical depression is defined as, then draws loose correlations together and labels them as "causes" instead. It's Malcolm Gladwell-style writing, but for psychology
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Ok, I have read a rebuttal of Irving's work as well so I'm taking it all with a grain of salt. Also, I think this is why people writing about medical science need to have a basic education in it ie. statistical data, epidemiology, how RCTs work
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Oh absolutely. The link goes to a meta-analysis of 4 newer antidepressants, if you didn't have a working knowledge of epi you'd just take what he says at face value
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