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"Seth Roberts, RIP"

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Blogger DR said...

The simpler protocol would be to use a random sample but repeat the group over multiple trials. Measure the correlation within subject across trials. If the top responders on the first trials tend to be the top responders on subsequent trials, then that tells you that people do tend to vary in individual responses. If there is no subject-specific correlation then that tells you the variance is entirely attributable to noise.

By the way, this concept is already well studied among exercise high and low responders. It's generally well known that about 20% of the population has a very positive physiological response to exercise, while 15% has actually zero or negative response.

http://www.livescience.com/6058-genes-explain-fit.html

5/1/14, 4:23 PM

Anonymous Melendwyr said...

You'd probably end up selecting people who have a strong response to placebo, regardless of what actual effects of treatment were.

I wonder if you could eliminate that effect by testing for hypnotic potential. Hmmm.

5/1/14, 4:27 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

It's a waste of time to run a study

How many people want to waste time out of their lives to do a study to prove what we already know...

It works on some people and it doesn't work on others. Test it out once yourself.

5/1/14, 4:33 PM

Anonymous Jeff said...

RIP Seth.

Seth was a very interesting man. He was far more than just interesting ideas on self-improvement. He had a different way of viewing the world, of questioning and analyzing. A shame that more people did not follow him; most of us end up falling in line, when the world is so much more interest from new vantages.

5/1/14, 4:35 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Diet strikes me as one area where self-experimentation is vital. I've tried numerous diets over the years, but the only one that has really worked for me is one that is high in fat and protein and low in carbs. My sister, in contrast, tried a low carb diet and was miserable. She felt tired and weak. Her brain seemed to be in a fog.

5/1/14, 4:44 PM

Anonymous Melendwyr said...

"How many people want to waste time out of their lives to do a study to prove what we already know..."

Because if it's not yet proven, we don't know it - by the rational rules of evidence. Conviction is not knowledge.

5/1/14, 4:52 PM

Anonymous bjdubbs said...

It wasn't just that Seth thought academic research was useless, it was that only useless things were considered academically prestigious. So figuring out how to prevent cancer got zero dollars, but doing research on telomeres was worthy of Nobels, even though the research was useless.

5/1/14, 5:04 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Your immune system reaction here might correlate fairly strongly with your cancer history.

BTW, apparently they're getting pretty good now at breeding and/or training dogs to SMELL cancer in humans.

Which is pretty fringing awesome on the part of Man's Best Friend.

5/1/14, 5:10 PM

Anonymous as said...

What happened to him? Was he ill? It's a bit mysterious.

Did you realize that he was 61? He looked young for his age.

He was an amazing person and will be missed.


5/1/14, 7:26 PM

Anonymous PV said...

"What happened to him? Was he ill? It's a bit mysterious.

Did you realize that he was 61? He looked young for his age. "

That picture is pretty old, and I've seen claims from people claiming to know him that he gained quite a bit of weight the last few years.

5/2/14, 1:41 AM

Anonymous dearieme said...

Many of the comments about him on Marginal Revolution were rather gormless.

It eventually struck me that there's a strand of opinion, perhaps especially in America, that approves of group diversity but not of individual diversity. Thus, it's good that there a white people and black people. (It's better that there are black, no doubt, but still.) But diversity within, for example, blacks should be deprecated. Hence the scorn and hatred directed at, for instance, blacks who have conservative political views. Thus the hatred of any notion of diverse social or political views among, say, students.

(Seen somewhere this week, a joke that appealed to me. Q: "What's the opposite of diversity?"
A:"University")

Seth was, as it were, individually diverse. Bless him.

5/2/14, 2:40 AM

Anonymous Cail Corishev said...

It eventually struck me that there's a strand of opinion, perhaps especially in America, that approves of group diversity but not of individual diversity.

Sort of the Star Trek view of race, which does seem fairly prevalent. Klingons are violent and warlike, Vulcans are logical and controlled, Ferenghi are greedy and conniving, etc. So you can mix them together to get lovely diversity at your school or dinner party, but you still know what to expect when you sit down with an individual. I think you're onto something.

5/2/14, 6:09 AM

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