Clinical-Trials

Substack’s algorithm for figuring out what I like to read is still serving up some odd stuff, but this time it found a good article. In The Mensa Fallacy Emil Kirkegaard takes on Karpinski et al (2018) which claimed that high intelligence is a risk factor for both psychological and physiological disease. The claim in the paper is to a novel finding, but Kirkegaard cites a number of studies that would indicate problems with Karpinski’s arguments. ...

Ever heard someone say they were “letting the data speak for itself?” I often encounter this phrase on the internet by someone claiming not to be interpreting the data, but merely relaying facts. I don’t believe that’s actually true in the sense that it’s typically meant. ...