"Dear diary, you make me sick!"

[aethyrflux]

i knew there was a reason that i don't use this forum much for personal journaling...
and now i have "evidence" ;~}
thanks to SMliles Lewis for posting this entry on his blog
originally from an article by Andy Coghlan @ NewScientist.com:

according to studies by UK psychologists, "regular diarists were more likely than non-diarists to suffer from

Comments

[denshi]

What a lame study. Sample bias anyone?

But she acknowledges that her experiment could not demonstrate which came first - the diary writing or the health problems.

Hell-o!

q.v. addendum, ^ above ^

[aethyrflux]

'seen i&i...
dem bumbaclaat shrinks attit agin!

Re: q.v. addendum, ^ above ^

[denshi]

Come again?

holistic complexities

[aethyrflux]

...agreed that this particular study certainly seemed to suffer severely from selection bias.

I&I have an inherent distrust of psychology's basis in "artsy-craftsy philosophical soft science," but it's certainly worth a laugh sometimes.

ruminating about this "soft-science" issue produced some amusing links:
Art Craft Soft Science Hard Science Taxonomy
Beyond the Physical - Science and Occultism: 3.1 The "Hard" And The "Soft" Sciences
Beyond the Physical - Science and Occultism: 9.0 Just What Do We Mean By A Science Of Psychology?

and here's an all-time favorite "artsy-craftsy philosophical soft science model:"
RAW's rendition of Leary's 8-circuit model of human consciousnessin the section concerning the Neuro-Atomic Circuit (VIII), there is this reference

also q.v. addendum ^ above ^

[aethyrflux]

but for some odd reason...
this study reminded me of the idea of geek social fallacies

[queenofhalves]

research by jamie pennebaker at UT suggests that regular journal writing improves health. ask inhumandecency.

[buddhalotus]

I would tend to believe this more.....it seems to me that writing is a good outlet.

also q.v. addendum ^ above ^

[aethyrflux]

thank you all for debunking this bad scholarship...

also q.v. addendum ^ above ^

[aethyrflux]

thanks for the tip!

[9thphoenix]

I'm still amazed at how almost no one realizes corilations don't prove *anything*. Even if we accept a corilation between social akwardness and journaling (which I think we all do not) the Akwardness and headaches could well be causing the journaling!

[aethyrflux]

if 90% of all junkies drank milk as children,
then can we reasonably prove that milk causes heroin addiction?

it's showdown of the century:
The US Drug War turns its sights on the The American Dairy Association!!!

and the retalliation...
Cows with Guns

so, now we must stop the mad cows (seriously, though).