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  • This has essentially no overlap with ADHD. It’s just a pop/incorrect understanding of ADHD. People with ADHD won’t do many of those things, and people without ADHD can do all of them. There’s even some reason to think this graphic could be inversely indicative of ADHD. For example, the only research of which I’m aware on ADHD and metaphor or analogy is actually that individuals with ADHD are worse at processing and understanding metaphors and are worse at analogical reasoning.




  • Well it is a behavior disorder. If you don’t have disruptive behavior, plenty of other psychiatric conditions cause the same or worse executive dysfunction (e.g., bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder) and the same or worse social anxiety and rejection sensitivity (e.g., social anxiety disorder). Let’s not pretend like ADHD isn’t difficult for others around the individual to deal with; it is, by definition, if someone has it.

    Ask me if you’d like sources for any of the above.


  • That’s actually a fairly common misconception. Professors get fired for cause all the time with tenure. People can also be let go even without cause if the college’s board of directors votes to approve. Usually the board of directors won’t give individual professors any thought, but if the professor is acting in ways they believe go against the best interests of the school–even if it doesn’t strictly violate to the professor’s contract–boards can and do vote to let professors go in those cases.

    Tenure exists to protect a professor’s freedom to research what they’re interested in, even if it’s not immediately fundable or a “hot topic.” It allows for faculty to stand up to deans when deans may be taking the college in a bad direction. It also allows professors to have the ability to require a constant level academic rigor to pass their classes (e.g., even if a cohort of students is less prepared out of high school, they need to achieve the same level of mastery) since their contracts aren’t dependent on teaching evaluations–provided that the professors are teaching their classes as expected. Tenure’s only actual reason for existing, though, is research freedom, and firing happens all the time for reasons unrelated to research.

    Source: am professor





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    5 months ago

    A bit of an exaggeration, sure. But only a bit. The lay summary of the article I referenced states the following:

    Venkataraman et al. find that the paper commits every error that it was possible to make in the paper: leaving out important papers, including irrelevant papers, using duplicate papers, mis-coding their societies, getting the wrong values for “big” versus “small” game, and many others.

    “commits every error that it was possible to make in the paper,” and, “completely incorrect,” aren’t very different.



  • When have we been talking about anyone’s diagnosis? We’ve been talking about the common misperception that depressive episodes caused by environmental triggers are not a result of treatable neurochemical dysfunction. MDD can certainly be a result of environmental triggers, and there are a wide variety of neurochemical bases of it. I distinctly said in my first comment that I was referencing a small part of your reply.

    I’m a neuroscience professor at an R1 university. I’m not trying to have a needless fight, I’m trying to correct a common public misperception that you reiterated. I do that whenever I see a misunderstanding of science; I care about public science education, especially on topics important enough as psychiatric conditions that are often fatal without treatment. If you feel like this is a pointless fight, sorry. I only commented because I understood your comment to mean something that, no matter my read of your wording, you clearly say you weren’t meaning.


  • My point is that such a lay interpretation isn’t helpful, and it may be harmful. Plenty of people with MDD have an environmental trigger prior to their first episode, and have their episode remit after that precipitating factor is managed. Convincing someone that their experience isn’t chemical suggests against treatment seeking during remission, such as seeking therapy, which could help prevent another episode (and one that may not have an environmental trigger). A depressive episode can be fatal. Telling someone that because their prior episode remitted spontaneously or after the environmental trigger changed might prevent them from getting the proactive and preventative treatment that they need to keep them from experiencing another episode and thus keep them alive. Don’t gatekeep depression.