DaFranker comments on How to Deal with Depression - The Meta Layers - Less Wrong

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Comment author: novalis 26 October 2012 09:54:25PM 2 points [-]

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.

Comment author: DaFranker 26 October 2012 10:11:32PM *  1 point [-]

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.