This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the older threads.
Rules:
Please avoid downvoting recommendations just because you don't personally like the recommended material; remember that liking is a two-place word. If you can point out a specific flaw in a person's recommendation, consider posting a comment to that effect.
If you want to post something that (you know) has been recommended before, but have another recommendation to add, please link to the original, so that the reader has both recommendations.
Please post only under one of the already created subthreads, and never directly under the parent media thread.
Use the "Other Media" thread if you believe the piece of media you want to discuss doesn't fit under any of the established categories.
Use the "Meta" thread if you want to discuss about the monthly media thread itself (e.g. to propose adding/removing/splitting/merging subthreads, or to discuss the type of content properly belonging to each subthread) or for any other question or issue you may have about the thread or the rules.
Statistics
* The relationship between sample size and power. Or if you're lazy...
* Should I assume log e or log 10?
* wash-out period between treatments in cross-over RCT's
* So you want to draw inferences about an individual from a group?
* Sampling from dynamic populations
* Relationship between number of participants and number of clusters
Refugee health
* An investigation of culturally competent terminology in healthcare policy finds ambiguity and lack of definition.
* Mental health literacy among refugee communities: differences between the Australian lay public and the Iraqi and Sudanese refugee communities.
* Refugee mental health bibliography
* Refugee research techniques bibliography
* Refugee work and occupation bibliography
* Twine - UNHR data on refugees
Psychiatry
* Rosenhan experiment
* Current decision tools to determine if non consensual mental health treatment is used
* Percieved coersion and psychiatry: A primer that frames the issues of patient rights (v.s. coersive psychiatry) as a question of impression management by clinicians (deceptive psychiatry) rather than as a framework of privellaged rights for psychiatric occupations and deprivation of rights from their subjects.
* Coercive psychiatry, human rights and public participation - an article identifying the factors underlying the persistance of human rights abuses in mental health care in Australia in spite of formal enquiries.
Evidence-based Health policy
http://policymakers.evidencemap.org/#/category/36
Psychotherapy
http://www.omicsonline.org/open-access/A-Systematic-Review-of-Potential-Mechanisms-of-Change-in-Psychotherapeutic-Interventions-for-Personality-Disorder-2161-0487.1000133.pdf http://www.cochrane.org/CD003388/DEPRESSN_psychological-therapies-chronic-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-ptsd-adults
Psychometrics
Item design:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factor_analysis
Survey design:
* https://fluidsurveys.com/university/tips-for-avoidin
11gwern
Everything is heritable:
* "Thinking positively: The genetics of high intelligence" (commentary)
* "Political Attitudes Develop Independently of Personality Traits", Hatemi & Verhulst 2015
Politics/religion:
* "'Ethics' is advertising", "The Strange Case of Anna Stubblefield" ("Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees...", "organisms are adaptation-executers, not fitness-maximizers")
* "The Cost of Crime to Society: New Crime-Specific Estimates for Policy and Program Evaluation"
Statistics/AI/meta-science:
* "A New, Life-or-Death Approach to Funding Heart Research"
* "Magnesium l-threonate/Magtein: publication bias in its human trials"
* "Auto-Generating Clickbait With Recurrent Neural Networks"
* "Page Weight Matters" (Simpson's paradox: when a better treatment - faster YouTube page loads - makes aggregate numbers worse - average latency goes up)
Psychology/biology:
* "Reconstruction and Simulation of Neocortical Microcircuitry", Markram et al 2015 (media)
* "Synchronizing education to adolescent biology: 'let teens sleep, start school later'", Kelley et al 2014:
* "Evolution of the human brain: when bigger is better", Hofman 2014
* "When Evolution Is Infectious"
* Charles Bonnet syndrome (10-40% of blind people can experience vivid complex visual hallucinations; they just don't ever talk about it.)
* "The Dubious Quick Kill, part 1: Sword wounds and the circulatory system"
* Dealing with a mercury spill
Technology:
* "Crush Point: When large crowds assemble, is there a way to keep them safe?"
Economics:
* "Ghost Babies"
* "Does Academic Research Destroy Stock Return Predictability?", McLean & Pontiff 2015
Philosophy:
* "The Reversal Test and Status Quo Bias"
* "Growing a Language", Steele 1998
Fiction:
* "It Was You Who Made My Eyes Blue"
* "Tryfon Tolides: an almost pure empty poetry"
This is the monthly thread for posting media of various types that you've found that you enjoy. Post what you're reading, listening to, watching, and your opinion of it. Post recommendations to blogs. Post whatever media you feel like discussing! To see previous recommendations, check out the older threads.
Rules: