PSYC 4320 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Clinical Trial, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Child Abandonment
28 Jul 2016
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Discussion 2 - january 19: the times article provides a cautionary tale about the limits of health research especially with regards to preventative medicine (an area of particular importance to applied social psychology). The author suggests that when it comes to preventative medicine our research methods and conclusions are more often than not, fundamentally flawed. Yes: author explains in beginning that the natural rhythm of science entails confidence in a drug one year to a reversal in the next year. Also, that there are an infinite number of wrong hypotheses for every right one. since this seems to be the trend in preventative treatments, i will agree that research methods. According to article, research conclusions for preventative medicine cannot inherently determine causation, their evidence is termed circumstantial". While these results may be good at identifying predictors of disease, they aren"t too great at explaining how or why one thing causes another.
