Does nobody understand the phrase “comparing apples to oranges?” In Dutch I recall the phrase “krijt en kaas” as in “everyone is as different as chalk and cheese”. The Dutch have so many cute phrases, there’s also one about “a house with two clocks, you never know what time it is.”
Imagine you or I were to do a study where we began by getting a baseline score of something - let’s say “how high does a fresh tennis ball bounce, 24 hours after being take fresh from a can” among several brands and seeing how many can bounce over a barrier at different heights - how high the bottom of the ball reaches. We’d establish a baseline median 24-hour bounce height of how high the barrier was that 50% of the balls could bounce over.
We soak new straight from the can tennis balls in paint, and then 24 hours later bounce them, but this time seeing how many bounce high enough to leave a paint spot on a barrier held at different heights above the bounce. We now declare a median bounce height based on how high the barrier was which has spots.
Anyone seeing this setup would laugh. It’s nonsensical, because you’re not measuring the same thing. There’s no “baseline”. You will automatically get a different answer, and the fact that for some balls the paint has dried and doesn’t have leave a spot, that’s not even accounted for. I would have “proven” the counterintuitive notion that heavy, paint-soaked tennis balls bounce higher than fresh tennis balls.
I guess I don’t understand why this isn’t a simple case of research malpractice and all results voided from the literature.
2. Prefrontal lobotomy.
For depressed people I recall reading statistics that prefrontal lobotomy was remarkably effective at alleviating depression. At the time it had become popular, women who were depressed for being treated badly by their spouses and families showed remarkable shifts. Likewise men who had “manias” of emotion and sexual attraction for other men, or depression over homosexuality, well it was pretty effective too.
Unfortunately the side effects of lobotomy included erasure of the mind, loss of speech and memory, incontinence and lifetime institutionalization but hey, the gay guy isn’t looking for a husband, and the little woman doesn’t complain about washing dishes.
For the awkward gay boys who were embarrassed, ridiculed and bullied about getting erections around other boys (Hey, I was one of those, and many of my friends were), does it require study and ludicrous test questions to find that chemical castration and slicing off a penis would be a remarkably effective treatment? I mean - is anyone with their head screwed on tight reading this?
Unfortunately the side effects are sterility, loss of the capacity of intimacy and orgasm, a lifetime of weekly painful injections of something, fragile bones, heart problems, and, well, replacing one depression for another. But no more embarrassment about erections!
I don’t understand why this isnt’t the same case as medical malpractice as lobotomies.
You don’t cure embarrassment and shame for homosexuality through slicing off sex organs. That should be on billboards from Bangor to San Diego.
I hate to say the Republicans are right in Florida.
I'm taking notes as I read this! I wonder if there was any follow up with the 15 "drop-outs" that took the sample size from 70 to 55. A sample size of 70 is already too small to have statistically significant results. In my very small anecdotal case study of trans widows, the ex-wives of men who ideate a female persona, one ex-husband married 3 more times, and is now fully detransitioned. He'd fathered more children (so must not have had "bottom surgery") and is not fulfilling any financial child support obligations. Trans Widows' Testimonies at Ute Heggen youtube channel:
thank you so much. here in new zealand we are currently transing more kids per head of population than the tavistock clinic did. if only decision makers, medical staff, therapists, educators, parents would see this. it needs to be more widely known.
Apart from the obvious mistake in switching questionaires. How can they even compare the items in the male and female versions? Several of them do not look equivalent to me. What about the validity of each version, and then between them?
Malpractice
Good article as always.
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Does nobody understand the phrase “comparing apples to oranges?” In Dutch I recall the phrase “krijt en kaas” as in “everyone is as different as chalk and cheese”. The Dutch have so many cute phrases, there’s also one about “a house with two clocks, you never know what time it is.”
Imagine you or I were to do a study where we began by getting a baseline score of something - let’s say “how high does a fresh tennis ball bounce, 24 hours after being take fresh from a can” among several brands and seeing how many can bounce over a barrier at different heights - how high the bottom of the ball reaches. We’d establish a baseline median 24-hour bounce height of how high the barrier was that 50% of the balls could bounce over.
We soak new straight from the can tennis balls in paint, and then 24 hours later bounce them, but this time seeing how many bounce high enough to leave a paint spot on a barrier held at different heights above the bounce. We now declare a median bounce height based on how high the barrier was which has spots.
Anyone seeing this setup would laugh. It’s nonsensical, because you’re not measuring the same thing. There’s no “baseline”. You will automatically get a different answer, and the fact that for some balls the paint has dried and doesn’t have leave a spot, that’s not even accounted for. I would have “proven” the counterintuitive notion that heavy, paint-soaked tennis balls bounce higher than fresh tennis balls.
I guess I don’t understand why this isn’t a simple case of research malpractice and all results voided from the literature.
2. Prefrontal lobotomy.
For depressed people I recall reading statistics that prefrontal lobotomy was remarkably effective at alleviating depression. At the time it had become popular, women who were depressed for being treated badly by their spouses and families showed remarkable shifts. Likewise men who had “manias” of emotion and sexual attraction for other men, or depression over homosexuality, well it was pretty effective too.
Unfortunately the side effects of lobotomy included erasure of the mind, loss of speech and memory, incontinence and lifetime institutionalization but hey, the gay guy isn’t looking for a husband, and the little woman doesn’t complain about washing dishes.
For the awkward gay boys who were embarrassed, ridiculed and bullied about getting erections around other boys (Hey, I was one of those, and many of my friends were), does it require study and ludicrous test questions to find that chemical castration and slicing off a penis would be a remarkably effective treatment? I mean - is anyone with their head screwed on tight reading this?
Unfortunately the side effects are sterility, loss of the capacity of intimacy and orgasm, a lifetime of weekly painful injections of something, fragile bones, heart problems, and, well, replacing one depression for another. But no more embarrassment about erections!
I don’t understand why this isnt’t the same case as medical malpractice as lobotomies.
You don’t cure embarrassment and shame for homosexuality through slicing off sex organs. That should be on billboards from Bangor to San Diego.
I hate to say the Republicans are right in Florida.
I'm taking notes as I read this! I wonder if there was any follow up with the 15 "drop-outs" that took the sample size from 70 to 55. A sample size of 70 is already too small to have statistically significant results. In my very small anecdotal case study of trans widows, the ex-wives of men who ideate a female persona, one ex-husband married 3 more times, and is now fully detransitioned. He'd fathered more children (so must not have had "bottom surgery") and is not fulfilling any financial child support obligations. Trans Widows' Testimonies at Ute Heggen youtube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS7RDyqje7I&t=1s
thank you so much. here in new zealand we are currently transing more kids per head of population than the tavistock clinic did. if only decision makers, medical staff, therapists, educators, parents would see this. it needs to be more widely known.
This is a great summary of the primary article. Thanks so much for including it.
Patent medicine, add rainbows
Apart from the obvious mistake in switching questionaires. How can they even compare the items in the male and female versions? Several of them do not look equivalent to me. What about the validity of each version, and then between them?
Wow as if life and ones roll in it wasn't hard enough to deal with. So many cross currents.
*Maybe a super computer can resolve*
Here's news Ute Heggen suspended by Twitter, in my Lea Utsira pen name! I lasted 4 days, posted links to my memoir videos!
Could it have been this link?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRRlHHG8IYc&t=10s