People with Depression Use Language Differently
Taleb claims that most psychological studies suffer from methodological flaws like p-hacking. One should be very sceptical of these kinds of studies and how you interpret them (correlation vs causation).<p>Psychology has recently experienced a replication crisis. More than half of studies have failed to replicate, and those that have, have had lower effect sizes.<p>Also, remember that there are lots of factors in a person&#x27;s immediate situation that affect how they act. You end up with a &quot;curse of dimensionality&quot; problem, where it&#x27;s impossible to isolate a general cause that&#x27;s not specific to a certain situation.<p>By the way, I&#x27;m not saying the result is wrong. I&#x27;m only urging caution. Don&#x27;t just believe something because &quot;A study says...&quot; or &quot;Scientists say...&quot;<p>____________________________________________<p>I noticed they did their study by comparing mental health forums to other types of forums. That&#x27;s an awfully specific situation. Let&#x27;s say I had cancer, and I were writing in a forum full of cancer sufferers, clearly I would use more first-person pronouns, because <i>I&#x27;m the cancer sufferer</i>.