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Youngest Kids in Class at Higher Risk of ADHD Diagnosis

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Re: Youngest Kids in Class at Higher Risk of ADHD Diagnosis

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You're not even saying anything at this point. I already quoted you a quoted showing that medicating children is demonstrated to be safe. Stop pretending already! There's hundreds of studies. You haven't made a point! I've quoted the reference literature, shown you that your little major point about diagnosis was false and now you just keep repeating your point. Your cdc point at 11% was your silver bullet and now yo…

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Re: Youngest Kids in Class at Higher Risk of ADHD Diagnosis

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God dude you have no idea about what you're saying. LOOK AT THE BAYES RULE EXAMPLE. DO YOU SEE THERE WILL ALWAYS BE A LARGE FALSE POSITIVE RATE? At this point you respond in bad faith and are demonstrably clueless. No matter how good a diagnostic test is there will always be false positives and this applies to ____every____ diagnosis. It's the relational structure of diagnosis itself . Stop responding please. You're…

HN needs to get better at downvoting and flagging.

Why? The bayes rule example does deal with that, I also answered his cdc diagnosis rate for the population rate at 11% as well. Have I missed something critical?

Re: Youngest Kids in Class at Higher Risk of ADHD Diagnosis

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post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're not even saying anything at this point. I already quoted you a quoted showing that medicating children is demonstrated to be safe. Stop pretending already! There's hundreds of studies. You haven't made a point! I've quoted the reference literature, shown you that your little major point about diagnosis was false and now you just keep repeating your point. Your cdc point at 11% was your silver bullet and now yo…

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Fwiw, I was comfortable with his/her behavior and there isn't a need to ban him/her for getting angry with me.

I'm a bit stubborn and probably should have dropped the discussion sooner.

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