katydee comments on Meditation, insight, and rationality. (Part 2 of 3) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: katydee 26 April 2012 09:45:24PM 2 points [-]

Yep. Not a hugely strong claim, though I'm emailing the author for more information.

Comment author: katydee 01 May 2012 07:44:58PM 3 points [-]

Update: The author replied, and doesn't know of any more conclusive studies in this respect.

Comment author: gwern 12 May 2012 12:35:41AM *  1 point [-]

I've started a multifactorial experiment for the next 360 days; I've decided one of the interventions will be meditation. Randomized on a per-day basis, and if that doesn't show any effect in the analysis, I'll try doing a before-after comparison.