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I appreciate what you did there.

> I would have much rather liked an appeal to the public showing data and analysis of what all of that science funding has accomplished for the people paying for it. Literally from…

That paper is extremely weak. Look at the confidence intervals surrounding the hazard ratios. There is almost no effect for paracetamol and the difference between paracetamol and i…

Not saying it’s irrelevant (though non critical reviews like this are not very valuable), but the parent wrote “here is one”, as in here is a study. I’m pointing out is not a study…

That study actually did NOT find that Vit D reduced autoimmune disease rate. P=.05 means not significant (it needs to be <.05). Pretty gigantic blunder by the researchers to be hon…

That is an uncritical review, not a study.

Do you support SSML and other languages besides English? The demo site suggests not, and I couldn’t explore further without signing up. This service might be cheaper than Google at…

Only one time.

They estimated SNP heritability via GCTA.

Intuition tells me it would be harder to achieve a precise measurement of ear protrusion than of a larger body part. This could be wrong of course, but it is generally good scienti…

Yes exactly this. And with noisier measures come lower correlations.

Ear protrusion is heritable: https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms8500

Strange that an article by someone interested in Bayesian statistics (according to the website banner) would not consider measurement error here. It seems likely to me that ear mea…

What do you mean?

For sound, dB is shorthand for dB SPL, or dBs above 20 μPa, which is roughly the threshold of human hearing. So 0 dB means 1:1 with that threshold, or essentially “silent”. I think…

Thanks; I’ll take a look at those papers.

I’m a psychoacoustician and I’ve studied auditory perception my whole career. The statement “we use auditory stimulation to increase the efficiency of deep sleep” sounds like snake…

The linked article is a meta analysis.

To me it doesn’t mean either of those things. It means whatever it is serves as the basis of the thing. Evidence-based practice is based on evidence, it doesn’t comprise or consist…

This comment confused me so I looked up the definition of homophone[0]. Turns out it can mean two words sounding the same (definition 2) or merely sounding alike (definition 1). Pe…

Pihole doesn’t block YouTube adds.

In my opinion, not worth it. There are much better and shorter fantasy series out there.

I’ve listened to 130 audiobooks in 2022 so far. I think I’ll get one more in before the new year but it won’t make this list. Some stood out: Greek Mythology series by Steven Fry. …

I don’t understand this comment, do you mean Audible? I buy audiobooks with cash there all the time. I just checked and you can still do that.

Unlike your Alzheimer’s example, hair cell loss is definitely the cause of hearing loss in many cases. There are other possible causes but this is the first or second most common b…