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ReceptionDry2755 t1_javg9dr wrote

Reply to Pilot Study: The Differential Response to Classical and Heavy Metal Music in Intensive Care Unit Patients under Sedo-Analgesia by clib

Was there any attempt to learn the musical preferences of the subjects prior to the study? Metal is an exceedingly broad genre and many of its musicians were at some point classical. They made the switch because metal is far more interesting and diverse, and gives them opportunities to demonstrate virtuosic playing in ways that classical can no longer.

The study is basically interesting but appears not to have really understood the nature of musical stimulus.

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Wagamaga OP t1_javfd57 wrote

Reply to On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread. In the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election visual misinformation was widespread across the platform, and that it was highly asymmetric across party lines, with right-leaning images five to eight times more likely to be misleading. by Wagamaga

A new study based on a massive dataset of posts collected from Facebook pages and groups in the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election finds that visual misinformation is widespread across the platform, and that it is highly asymmetric across party lines, with right-leaning images five to eight times more likely to be misleading.

In “Visual misinformation on Facebook,” published this week in the Journal of Communication, scholars from Texas A&M University’s Department of Communication & Journalism, Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism, and the George Washington University’s Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics collected and analyzed nearly 14 million posts from more than 14,000 pages and 11,000 public groups from August through October 2020.

From this corpus, the researchers arrived at a representative data set of political images, and another of images that specifically depicted political figures. An analysis found that 23% of political images in a sample contained misinformation, while 20% of those that depicted a political figure were misleading.

https://techpolicy.press/on-facebook-visual-misinfo-widespread-highly-asymmetric-across-party-lines/

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Reply to On Facebook, Visual Misinfo Widespread. In the runup to the 2020 U.S. Presidential election visual misinformation was widespread across the platform, and that it was highly asymmetric across party lines, with right-leaning images five to eight times more likely to be misleading. by Wagamaga

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watabadidea t1_javevpd wrote

Reply to comment by va_str in US public investment in critical research contributed to the success of mRNA Covid vaccines, and saved millions of lives by geoxol

There are lots of ways to avoid risk, lots of different levels of risk aversion, and lots of potential government subsidies to apply for. How do companies decide on how best to avoid risk, what a proper level of risk aversion/risk acceptance is prudent, and what specific subsidies to target/apply for?

Those are really tough questions and the answer is a complete mystery. Of course, I do seem to recall an interview one time with a Big Pharma exec where he said "None of our decisions in these areas have anything to do with profit motivation. Lord knows we don't operate in a trillion dollar, for-profit industry because we want to make money."

So, at the very least, we know it's not that, right?

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InTheEndEntropyWins t1_jav6tad wrote

Reply to comment by Fabulous-Relative333 in Too much or too little sleep could be making you sick more. Those who reported sleeping less than six hours a night were 27% more likely to report a recent infection, and those who reported more than nine hours sleep were 44% more likely to report one. by MistWeaver80

This is reverse causation. Those people that are ill or have sleep issues like sleep apnoea need more sleep. If those people had normal amounts of sleep they would have even worse health outcomes.

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InTheEndEntropyWins t1_jav6s53 wrote

Reply to Too much or too little sleep could be making you sick more. Those who reported sleeping less than six hours a night were 27% more likely to report a recent infection, and those who reported more than nine hours sleep were 44% more likely to report one. by MistWeaver80

This is just wrong, you can't get "too much" sleep. Once you've had enough sleep you wake up.

This is reverse causation. Those people that are ill or have sleep issues like sleep apnoea need more sleep. If those people had normal amounts of sleep they would have even worse health outcomes.

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Alert-Potato t1_jav59d8 wrote

Reply to Japanese researchers identify three intestinal bacteria linked with Lewy body dementia, potentially providing new biomarkers and new avenues for therapeutic development by viomelifesciences

I makes me so happy to see more and more research related to our gut microbiomes. A thoroughly screwed up microbiome will screw a person up. I love seeing the research on this front progress so that eventually we can start treating to prevent these medical issues.

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Reply to Long Covid linked to increased risk of death and other cardiovascular issues in new study by BoundariesAreFun

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AfroCeltic t1_jauwi7b wrote

Reply to comment by Minimum-Breadfruit17 in Wisconsin cave holds tantalizing clues to ancient climate changes, future shifts - New research shows rapid warmings of >10 °C in <10 years occurred repeatedly during the last glacial period in central North America, likely coinciding with Dansgaard-Oeschger warming events by avogadros_number

And if you moved here from IL 10 plus years ago, you just shake your head at tyme machines.

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Batmanbumantics t1_jauptps wrote

Reply to comment by Fabulous-Relative333 in Too much or too little sleep could be making you sick more. Those who reported sleeping less than six hours a night were 27% more likely to report a recent infection, and those who reported more than nine hours sleep were 44% more likely to report one. by MistWeaver80

Pretty much. I've long term anxiety and depression which messes with your immune system. So yes, I can sleep for 17-20hours a day and I also catch every illness going. I get ill because of the immune wrecking mental health issues, not because I sleep a lot. Given depression and anxietys prevalence in the population, I'd imagine it played a role in these figures.

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26_skinny_Cartman t1_jaul3mg wrote

Reply to comment by PeteSampras_MMO in Too much or too little sleep could be making you sick more. Those who reported sleeping less than six hours a night were 27% more likely to report a recent infection, and those who reported more than nine hours sleep were 44% more likely to report one. by MistWeaver80

This isn't about your sleeping patterns while sick. It's about your normal sleeping patterns and how frequently you get sick.

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