1908: the Lancet, one of the most respected scientific journals, calls for 18 age limit on reading in bed amidst a moral panic surrounding children becoming "addicted" to novels, which were "designed to keep kids hooked" and destroy their attention/mental health
I'm in the Guardian today, writing about the question of overdiagnosis of mental illness. I argue we need to stop seeing this as a binary yes/no question - is overdiagnosis happening or is the increase real? - and acknowledge that multiple things can be happening at once
tinyurl.com/yzsey97c
Hey, it just works! Thats terrific 🥳
Interesting! Dont you miss that it's not a tibble output?
Modern academic publishing part II: Sage has now blocked my (university) IP address because I have had a tab open for >4 hours since my license does not allow downloading. I now have to write my colleagues an email so that I can read papers that they are already paying an annual fee of ~100K€ for.
Who wants to join us in Oslo to study how health influences educational underperformance? We are hiring PhDs postdocs candidates for our funded project. We will follow children from birth to emerging adulthood, using behavioural genetic methods and large datasets 945000.webcruiter.no/Main/Recruit...
Works the other way around too.
“If I was Jonathan Haidt, how would I destroy the next generation?”
There should be an award for this! 💫
"People can feel the future (p. <.05)" in contrast to a default ESCI plot from Jamovi. Personally, I think tool defaults are way more important than experts (who dont need them) realize.
Data: replicationindex.com/tag/feeling-...
This one surely has something on offer for every one: In this cross-sectional mediation analysis, the "effects" of soft drink consumption on depression were "mediated" by abundance of Eggerthela in the gut microbiome.
This was sent to me via dm and now you all got to suffer as well.
"The winning strategy is to be confused about causality" 😅
Thank you for sharing! Super valuable 🥳
The recording is now available so that you can confirm that I indeed have a German accent and color-match my outfits with my Zoom background.
youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...
Results of the replication are in!
Chocolate is more desirable than poop:
Cohen's d_rm = 6.20, 95%CI [5.63, 6.78]
N = 486, two single item 1-7 Likert scales of desirability.
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Our new paper is out today! 🎉 In it, we use administrative register data to document how psychiatric disorders are strongly linked to parental income, from childhood far into adulthood. Furthermore, we attempt to separate causation and selection using kinship-based models.
doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...
I was thinking about this: «Do larger incomes make people happier?»
Much of the income - happines litterature.
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💡 Bonus content:
We did not find any evidence for the idea that having “to much” cognitive ability is bad for your mental health.
📄 Full study: doi.org/10.1177/0956...
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📉 The findings suggest an under-recognized high-risk group:
Individuals with low cognitive abilities + low education are particularly vulnerable to develop a mental illness.
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🔍 We used sibling fixed-effects models to control for shared family background—some genetics, upbringing, socioeconomic status, etc.
📌 So differences in mental health risk can’t be explained by shared family environment.
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🧬 Why is this study so robust?
✅ Huge sample: 272,351 men
✅ Nationwide administrative data
✅ Diagnoses from hospital records—not self-report
✅ Cognitive scores from mandatory military screening. In our cohorts, basically every male in the population was required to participate.
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🎓 Educational attainment also independently predicted better mental health.
But the highest risk was for men who were low in both cognition and education.
This group faced the highest probability of adult psychiatric diagnoses.
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🧠 Higher cognitive ability at age 18 predicted lower risk of all psychiatric disorders at ages 36–40—especially substance abuse.
✅ This held even when comparing brothers raised in the same family.
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New study: How do adolescent cognitive ability and education predict adult mental disorders?
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Using Norwegian register data (N = 272,351 men) of GP diagnoses and military assessed cognitive abilities.
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The Causal Bandits episode with me is finally up! We talked about a hodge-podge of causal inference and methods issues. I already got one positive testimonial from my boss who listened to the first half and liked it!
Before submitting your manuscript, make sure to include some obvious errors. This gives reviewers a sense of adding some value to the process, without asking you to change anything of consequence. #AcademicPublishing #AcademicJournals #AcademicChatter #PeerReview
Is it better to have the minions do meta analyses 😅?
