My brain is full of dust and ashes, so some quotes that need more publicity. Bruce Charlton, as he frequently does, gets to the nub of our current issues with virtue and signalling we are part of the narrative: it is propaganda for evil. Modern virtue-signalling is in reality signalling the inversion of virtue. Up … Continue reading Curse Meroz’ virtue signals
Day: June 28, 2017
Placebo and reversion to the mean.
I am showing in the graph a secondary analysis from a paper that pooled the cognitive tests in the placebo arm of 12 cognitive remediation RCTs in psychosis. Those with worse pre randomization testing improved: those with better testing had no differences. There is a question as to if this shows reversion to the mean. … Continue reading Placebo and reversion to the mean.
Ebenezer [I Sam 7]
We often sing an old hymn that has a reference to Ebenezer: this far by the LORD we have come. The idea of this, a sign, a stone, showing where we have got to comes from the battle of Mirzpah. The circumstances of the battle are important. The people of Israel wanted to see the … Continue reading Ebenezer [I Sam 7]