Having a Cat Does Not Cause Mental Illness, New Study Suggests
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Having a Cat Does Not Cause Mental Illness, New Study Suggests
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#2Having a cat may not cause mental illness, just that in my experience having a cat is a sign of mental illness
Re: Having a Cat Does Not Cause Mental Illness, New Study Suggests
#3If you look at the abstract, all of the correlations actually show that having a cat does predict mental illness at all ages considered. But the effect sizes are relatively low (albeit consistent with the more direct studies looking at people actually infected with toxoplasma rather than people who might be infected), so with a few hundred or thousand people, it technically doesn't satisfy pfor toxoplasma having bad effects.
This seems to be a trend with toxo papers - take a too-small sample, do no power or Bayesian analysis, find all bad correlations, but declare evidence of safety anyway.
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#4Let me guess... study sponsored by cats?
Re: Having a Cat Does Not Cause Mental Illness, New Study Suggests
#5Why the cat hate on HN?
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#6Let me guess... study sponsored by cats?
Obviously you didn't read the article. The humans that come in contact with cats have altered minds; they sponsored the article, with no direct links to the original feline overlords.
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#7Having a cat may not cause mental illness, just that in my experience having a cat is a sign of mental illness
Really? What's your reasoning here?
I would speculate that having a dog would be a better after the fact indicator of mental illness considering their more frequent use in animal assisted therapy.
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#8Having a cat may not cause mental illness, just that in my experience having a cat is a sign of mental illness
Really? What's your reasoning here? I would speculate that having a dog would be a better after the fact indicator of mental illness considering their more frequent use in animal assisted therapy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal-assisted_therapy#Types
There's no reasoning there; there's just "Aren't I clever?"
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#9Why the cat hate on HN?
HN hates everything, cats included. It's bewildering.
Re: Having a Cat Does Not Cause Mental Illness, New Study Suggests
#10If you look at the abstract, all of the correlations actually show that having a cat does predict mental illness at all ages considered. But the effect sizes are relatively low (albeit consistent with the more direct studies looking at people actually infected with toxoplasma rather than people who might be infected), so with a few hundred or thousand people, it technically doesn't satisfy p for toxoplasma having bad…
I don't think its just toxo papers, people use bad math in all kinds of scientific papers.