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agm1984 t1_je5gc8n wrote
Reply to comment by AthKaElGal in Aggregate measure of financial misreporting for nearly 2,000 companies in the U.S. suggests that the collective probability of fraud across major companies is the highest in over 40 years by marketrent
Earnings Before I Tricked Dumb Auditors (EBITDA)
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Reply to comment by casus_bibi in Harsh mothers more likely to have poor executive functioning and interpret others’ behavior as hostile: Study finds that mothers with harsher parenting practices tend to have poorer executive functioning and are more prone to hostile attribution bias. by motskena
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berrytas t1_je5aiy0 wrote
Reply to comment by NightsOvercast in Vegan diets benefit health, but only if they're healthy. Study found a healthy vegan diet was linked to lower risk of heart disease, cancer and premature death, compared with non-vegan diets. N=125,000 by MistWeaver80
vegans are more likely to be 'rule followers' and engage in other lifestyle behaviors that are considered healthy (e.g., more walks, exercise, less processed foods, generally taking care of oneself). their positive health outcomes may or may not be related to their diet.
it has been shown repeatedly that you cannot control for these confounding lifestyle factors - hence why epidemiology should be step 1, and then you use randomized controlled trials to actually test for only changes in diet (which is obviously very hard to do at any sort of scale over any long time horizon - can't really lock people away for decades).
additionally, comparing a vegan diet consisting of whole, fresh foods to the standard american diet isn't really telling. anything is better than that!
Silver-Antelope-1285 t1_je57yax wrote
Reply to Research found weight loss was associated with decreased risk factors for cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes for at least five years — even if some weight was regained, according to a review of research on behavioral weight loss programs by Wagamaga
The accessibility to high caloric food is far too easy. You've got no reason to consume 300+ extra calories daily if your body simply doesn't need it.
casus_bibi t1_je56zhu wrote
Reply to Harsh mothers more likely to have poor executive functioning and interpret others’ behavior as hostile: Study finds that mothers with harsher parenting practices tend to have poorer executive functioning and are more prone to hostile attribution bias. by motskena
It is a lot easier to get overwhelmed with executive dysfunction, making disruptive (or disobedient) behavior more difficult to deal with. It's very easy to go from zero to 100 if a young child keeps up bad behavior, like loud screaming/singing/noise, or if the kid refuses to clean up their mess (this is already difficult with ED, then add the additional difficulty of time pressure and a child refusing to clean up their toys), if you already warned them and are running out of energy to compensate. It's also relatively easy to attribute malicious intent to the behavior, because you have already warned them that you can't handle it and the behavior continues.
It seems probable to me that these mothers are trying to somewhat protect themselves from being overstimulated and overwhelmed as non compliance can trigger panic attacks, meltdowns, and anxiety.
As they only tested this with mothers of young children, it's possible that this authoritarian parenting style will become less rigid as the child develops more empathy for the needs of their parents, and the domestic noise levels and neediness of the kids lessens.
spankythemonk t1_je56zg4 wrote
Reply to Harsh mothers more likely to have poor executive functioning and interpret others’ behavior as hostile: Study finds that mothers with harsher parenting practices tend to have poorer executive functioning and are more prone to hostile attribution bias. by motskena
as a poor executive functioning father, i am glad it only effects mothers.
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Reply to comment by Critical_Liz in Harsh mothers more likely to have poor executive functioning and interpret others’ behavior as hostile: Study finds that mothers with harsher parenting practices tend to have poorer executive functioning and are more prone to hostile attribution bias. by motskena
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NightsOvercast t1_je55ht8 wrote
Reply to comment by berrytas in Vegan diets benefit health, but only if they're healthy. Study found a healthy vegan diet was linked to lower risk of heart disease, cancer and premature death, compared with non-vegan diets. N=125,000 by MistWeaver80
How do you see healthy user bias playing a part in this specific study?
costumrobo t1_je53fue wrote
Reply to Harsh mothers more likely to have poor executive functioning and interpret others’ behavior as hostile: Study finds that mothers with harsher parenting practices tend to have poorer executive functioning and are more prone to hostile attribution bias. by motskena
Love a title that states the same thing twice verbatim.
KetosisMD t1_je53298 wrote
SmartAssClown t1_je52tfj wrote
Reply to comment by giuliomagnifico in Animals adjust reactions to misinformation: fish can adjust their sensitivity to the actions of others – such as fleeing due to a false alarm – in order to reduce the risk of overreacting to misinformation, this decision-making mechanisms may be preserved in other animals, including humans by giuliomagnifico
Maybe someday we'll be as wise as fish
DoctorSeis t1_je526aa wrote
Reply to comment by sfzombie13 in Researchers Show Optical Fiber Communication Cables Can Warn Against Earthquakes by HeinieKaboobler
For sure it's more sophisticated. What you are talking about (and what I mentioned for measuring seismic wave propagation) requires a single (very specialized, very expensive) piece of equipment on one end of the fiber that does the sending/receiving and initial processing. However, in the context of using an existing communications network (that is also actively being used with the equipment they already have) I was speculating on how they could possibly detect a "big" disturbance without the same sort of specialty equipment (that we use for precise measurements) already in place. In the case of an early warning system, the measurements need not be that precise when it simply needs to alert folks that a large disturbance has been detected somewhere along the line.
AnOddFad t1_je51ryd wrote
Reply to comment by Witty_Interaction_77 in Forcing dominant mice to lose social status induced depression-like behaviors and reduced pleasure-seeking by Zadarex
If it can’t be done with compassion I still don’t see the point.
There are already medications for depression, torturing mice isn’t going to teach us anything we can’t already fix or don’t already know.
magicbaconmachine t1_je51oia wrote
Reply to Ultramassive black hole over 30 billion times mass of our sun has been spotted. The discovery had been made possible thanks to a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing — the first time a black hole has been spotted in such a way. by Wagamaga
Are these maybe common since we are just starting to have technology to detect them. Are we possibly surrounded by these massive beats?
TheNextBattalion t1_je51dbm wrote
Reply to comment by DamonFields in Aggregate measure of financial misreporting for nearly 2,000 companies in the U.S. suggests that the collective probability of fraud across major companies is the highest in over 40 years by marketrent
the only Age there ever was
TheNextBattalion t1_je51ble wrote
Reply to comment by Im_Talking in Aggregate measure of financial misreporting for nearly 2,000 companies in the U.S. suggests that the collective probability of fraud across major companies is the highest in over 40 years by marketrent
Also to the rise in ice cream sales
Witty_Interaction_77 t1_je50u9m wrote
Reply to comment by AnOddFad in Forcing dominant mice to lose social status induced depression-like behaviors and reduced pleasure-seeking by Zadarex
That's not quite the process... also, you want to exploit people?
The thing about the testing (especially brain testing) is that it's super invasive, many times involving the death of the subject in order to visually see the brain or take samples. Drug testing results in debilitating conditions or death.
Subjecting humans to this would be horrible. Having "depressed people", or "prisoners", or any other human you suggest would be far more ethically and morally bankrupt than testing on the mice.
I think all life is valuable. However, mice reproduce very quickly, they live short lives, they are small one have traits that make them good for observing because they are close to humans, and they are also well... animals.
Humans have an innate need to discover things. Doing it this way is surprisingly the lesser of two evils. No matter what you think of medical animal testing, you've reaped its benefits at some point in your life.
If it makes you feel any better, the scientists are very nice to them.
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MRCHalifax t1_je4ysx6 wrote
Reply to comment by PansexualEmoSwan in Increased Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Mitigates Oxidative Damage and Associated Inflammatory Response in Obese Subjects Independent of Body Weight Change by Zadarex
OK, now I’m imagining Scotty watching as all the dials go into the red zone, just being on the comm to the bridge/brain saying “The gut biome is destabilizing, Cap’n! The fibre and sugar ratio is unstable! If this keeps up, we’re goinga blow!”
AnOddFad t1_je4yish wrote
Reply to comment by Witty_Interaction_77 in Forcing dominant mice to lose social status induced depression-like behaviors and reduced pleasure-seeking by Zadarex
We literally have countless depressed humans on earth visiting psychiatrists. All it would take is to give them a brain scan and voila, we have a much better result than this.
And if we’re worried about privacy? Just ask their permission or give a monetary reward. There are bound to be some people willing to help science.
Witty_Interaction_77 t1_je4y4z3 wrote
Reply to comment by AnOddFad in Forcing dominant mice to lose social status induced depression-like behaviors and reduced pleasure-seeking by Zadarex
Unfortunately, there isn't. Computer modelling just isn't there. Not to mention, getting natural physical reactions is impossible to model in any form other than observing live specimens in real time.
It's unfortunate. However necessary, unless you're willing to expend human lives to advance research.
Wagamaga OP t1_je4xswa wrote
Reply to Ultramassive black hole over 30 billion times mass of our sun has been spotted. The discovery had been made possible thanks to a phenomenon known as gravitational lensing — the first time a black hole has been spotted in such a way. by Wagamaga
A team of British researchers has made an exciting discovery in the great inky black of space: a gigantic black hole is roughly 30 billion times the mass of our Sun.
Something that large is almost unfathomable to the brain of the Average Joe, but thankfully space boffins at Durham University have been busily studying the cosmos and all the secrets she keeps hidden from us.
The findings, described by the research team as 'extremely exciting' have been published in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Durham University Astronomer James Nightingale and lead author of the study said: "This particular black hole is roughly 30 billion times the mass of our Sun.
https://www.unilad.com/news/scientists-discover-one-of-the-biggest-black-holes-ever-291846-20230329
BabyNapsDaddyGames t1_je5h23s wrote
Reply to comment by Ok_Skill_1195 in Aggregate measure of financial misreporting for nearly 2,000 companies in the U.S. suggests that the collective probability of fraud across major companies is the highest in over 40 years by marketrent
It's a bit more detailed than that, corporations having been bribing (read: lobbying) politicians for decades to erode those laws that would keep them in check. The IRS has been gutted so many times they no longer have the power to pressure the wealthy. For a business to become successful without using all the loopholes is very difficult unless the stars are aligned in the right way.