Recent updates to gwern.net (2011)

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A list of things I have written or researched in 2011 which I put on my personal site.

This has been split out to http://www.gwern.net/Changelog

A list of things I have written or researched in 2011 which I put on my personal site.

This has been split out to http://www.gwern.net/Changelog

The relevant study is cited in the page, yes. I am skeptical because there are so few studies and SNPs have a very bad track record of replication.

Hi, sorry to bother you again.

I was reading your Nootropics piece on Nicotine., and I noticed that for your placebo, you "dried out" your gum in the hopes that the nicotine would evaporate.

Your criteria for determining that the "dry" gum had no effect was to swallow a 4 mg dose and note that you felt no effects. You reasoned you would notice the effects because it made you dizzy last time you took that dose - but then you also noted that you didn't eat dinner, which could have also caused the effect, confounding your judgement.

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Oh, whoops, I must have missed it on your page on first reat. I've been meaning to track that down and re-read it, thanks It's true that allele-behavior interaction studies have really small effect sizes. Although, I do think that if someone has done the relevant genetic testing, it might be worth looking at the better studied dopamine alleles (DRD4 VNTR /DRD2 taq / DAT1 VNTR /COMT 158, etc) when deciding whether or not to take stimulants, since both extremes of the spectrum have somewhat similar cognitive disadvantages and they can be difficult to distinguish behaviorally.

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