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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • The study begins by adding up how many people self-reported taking multivitamins in some reports, then they added up the dead humans.

    Pretty simple.

    I thought I said there were no relevant variables and parameters? I’ll check.

    Yes, I said relevant in point four.

    I guess I could have used it in two and three also, although I think it makes sense in context.

    I stand by my earlier comment and don’t see the need to edit it to add in the word “relevant” to further dunk on an irrelevant paper.

    Here: There are no relevant controlling variables or parameters that make this study useful.

    It’s not even a curio because any number of factors could influence the conclusions of their addition.


  • There are many problems with this post and this study:

    1. This study did not conclude that there are no health benefits from taking multivitamins, that’s a false equivalence made by the poster.

    2. This study has no parameters for the quality or types of vitamins taken other than “multivitamin”

    3. This study exclusively reports the correlation between mortality and multivitamins, which is an inconsequential and useless statistic without any parameters.

    4. This study does not take into account any variables apart from a lack of long-term health disorders among multivitamin takers.

    This is relevant as many people take vitamins specifically to rectify long-term health disorders.

    Then again, seeing as how their only metric was mortality and not efficacy on health, that wouldn’t have mattered in this study.

    1. Objectively, a large percentage of the multivitamin market are older people, who are more likely to die.

    This could be one of the explanations for the 4% higher mortality rate in multivitamin takers. I’m sure there are others, since no variables are parameters were taken into account or structured into the study. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2820369

    This “study” is the sum function on an Excel sheet that counted the number of deaths connected to the number of people who reported taking multivitamins, which is a useless number without controlled parameters or variables taken into account.

    The study means nothing.









  • I mentioned it that there are a bunch of methods but I just mentioned the two that helped me the most.

    Wanted to keep things simple.

    I didn’t like the alarm one. That in particular, seems like it would mess with my head more since it’s disrupting sleep.

    And I didn’t notice any difference when I used it.

    There were a bunch of methods I tried, but most ranged from impractical to irritating, I didn’t want it to disrupt my life too much.

    The dream journaling and reality testing was simple and resulted in fairly rapid awareness of my dreams.

    That does sound tough, not being able to distinguish dreams from reality.

    I had a really cool one where I was like ninja flipping around a mall sliding down jumping off escalator handrails fighting these zombie dogs.

    That was pretty rad.