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I'm not sure how including citations would improve this article. It's based on a personal experience. If the author had gone out and done a bunch of research, chosen a depression-relieving method based on those already studied, tried it, and then written about it, it would have made sense to include citations to the original research. But at this point, with the bottom line already written, looking up a couple of articles on depression just to have citations doesn't add anything to the presentation.
Citations to studies done personally would be enough. As-is, I have no reason to believe this article at all.
I think it would be better if the article said, "I've done a bunch of work with depressed people and here's a technique that seems to work. Now I want to test it. Email me if you would like to volunteer for a study that will take about five minutes per day for two weeks."
I would sign up for that study.
Huh. I'd love to see such a study done. I don't know if I have the time and energy for it right now, but I will consider it and keep this in mind.
I would be willing to run a study like this for you–it would have to be long distance/online, since I'm in Canada, but I could get some of the local LW-Ottawa people to help set up an online survey format.
I'd love to participate in such a study, I've noticed my moods go all over the place and would like to see how such a survey would work.
That would be awesome! Would you be up for a skype call to discuss this? My email is shannon dot friedman at positivevector.com, drop me a line and I'll send you my skype ID and availability.
Yes, good idea. We could treat this as a prediction, and try to actually test it.
I would also volunteer for such a study. (Un?)Fortunately, I doubt I'd make a valid sample, considering my recent lack of depressive states.