Statistics
The relationship between sample size and power. Or if you're lazy...
So you want to draw inferences about an individual from a group?
Relationship between number of participants and number of clusters
Refugee health
Psychiatry
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:
Survey design:
Misc
Ring signatures are the future of the anonymous cryptocurrencies? Zero knowledge proofs are probably impossible
Caplan's the Danger of Economics - most of which I think he's wrong about, but I appreciate that he's discussing topics and subtopics that I'm interested in.
Recent redditing about anxiety and toxaplasma here got my researching:Given that Amantadine actually kills the pathogen associated with depression, whereas causitive agents are not associated with most types of depression, could it be that Amantadine can cure and not merely treat depression and/or bipolar or other mood disorders (and speculatively due to research on associations with schiz.) and even psychotic disorders? Unfortunately the low sample size of the only available study, the unfashionability of bringing infectious disease and mental health silos together, and the lack of a follow up study for the longer term, or even cases studies contacting participants in the last study if they had remissed is going to hold back those answers. I wonder why the malaria drug makers don't enter this psych pahrma industry themsleves
codified of the 'honour code' of two American gangs
experiential avoidance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiential_avoidance), social role valorisation and learned optimism
limits of computation. I wonder if this is telling about human cognition too?
chambers of commerce and the wiki
look at predictive modelling, econometrics and math finance
Robert Green's sick articles on getting jobs and not living in the present
How does that post show 'Zero knowledge proofs are probably impossible'?
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