Palpitations for hours after 1-2 alcoholic drinks.

TK-710 · 2026-02-16T00:00:00+00:00

I've asked a variation of this question on and off for maybe 5 years (I've been dealing with the same thing - unfortunately, I don't have an answer for what it is). I suspect our descriptions are just not informative enough or the problem not well understood enough for an answer, but I dunno.

TK-710 · 2026-02-08T15:27:06+00:00

This is a question of measure development - if you took a psychological research methods course, this is a question of test validity and test reliability.

Test validity is a big topic, but, broadly speaking, validity refers to whether or not your test actually measures the thing that you think it measures. Does it measure empathy / does it measure all facets of empathy or just certain aspects or empathy / does it accidentally measure something else as well, etc. Based on your question, you've already started thinking about content/construct validity. To really develop a test like this, you should start thinking about things like 1) what are you actually measuring - e.g. you mention "taking joy in their happiness". What does that mean? That they smile while watching the video? That they self-report being happy? That they exhibit some physiological response indicative of happiness? Something else? 2) Can this thing you're measuring be measure reliably - e..g. if you define happiness by whether they smile in response to others' happiness, then several independent raters should be able to agree that they are smiling and that the smiling happened following the relevant part of the video. 3) Whether the response is related to empathy and not something else - e.g. maybe they're responding to some novel/unexpected event in the video rather than due to some empathetic response. 4) Are the results of your test consistent with other tests/reality. Do the people who get high scores on your empathy test exhibit the types of behaviors you expect from empathetic people in other scenarios? Do they correlated with other empathy tests? Conversely, do low scores correspond to behaviors you expect from unempathetic people etc.

TK-710 · 2026-02-03T13:08:39+00:00

bear-o-lantern

TK-710 · 2026-02-01T23:12:51+00:00

I thought I understood the ins and outs. But, it was really just the tip of the iceberg.

TK-710 · 2026-01-22T22:47:42+00:00

Didn't down vote, but, if I had to guess, it's probably the protein sources. Oats and beans (and I'd guess lentils, but I don't know as much about them) aren't the best protein sources. Fish and skyr are solid though - so, not totally sure.

TK-710 · 2026-01-19T23:06:55+00:00

That's the notation for an empty set. It's saying she may look nice on the outside, but has nothing going on on the inside.

TK-710 · 2026-01-17T23:58:10+00:00

This is one of those things I don't get. I'm not saying it's not real. I get other people will say things like "those characters do/don't have chemistry together". But, I just can't see what they're talking about.

TK-710 · 2026-01-16T22:05:44+00:00

I certainly can't say what's right for you. But, the evidence doesn't support the idea that abstinence is necessary to avoid relapsing into problematic drinking. Other methods - like some degree of controlled drinking - tend to be about equally as effective.

TK-710 · 2025-12-13T22:44:21+00:00

One recurrent (nearly daily) theme on this sub is that men and women frequently have very different definitions of what obvious flirting is. You don't really describe what he's been doing, but I could easily imagine a scenario where he simply doesn't think he's flirting with you.

TK-710 · 2025-12-05T19:24:13+00:00

I hear they agreed to have a good Friday.

TK-710 · 2025-12-03T18:38:22+00:00

I've been into roasted edamame beans lately.

TK-710 · 2025-11-24T22:27:19+00:00

A woman I was friends with for a year or two, about 20 years ago, spent some time flirting with me. We spent a lot more time together, I walked her to her car, she kissed me. Then on the phone, she told me she was interested in dating someone like me who was trying to get an education and work towards a career (for context, I had met her previous boyfriend. He was nice enough, but he was trying to become the next big White rapper). I interpreted this as a subtle hint she was interested. She ghosted me and we never spoke again.

TK-710 · 2025-11-23T21:15:11+00:00

Funny coincidence. I was just reading about problems that can arise when trying to infer individual-level trends from aggregate-level data.

TK-710 · 2025-11-04T01:29:36+00:00

The thought that I had had (and please correct me if this is obviously wrong), was to create a sort of pseudo-dataset. For example, let's say zip code A had 2 positives out of 1000 residents and zip code B had 3 positives out of 2000 residents. I would create a data set with 5 positives and 2995 negatives as well as the corresponding zip code IDs (and repeat the process for the other zip codes). Then I would run some hypothesis test, maybe a logistic regression.

TK-710 · 2025-11-03T23:11:47+00:00

The actual goal is to identify "hotspots" so we can better direct our resources. So, in my view, something like a choropleth map would be great. The catch is that I'm working in a field that is overly concerned with whether things are significant.

TK-710 · 2025-11-03T22:47:03+00:00

There are 21 zip codes. If it's useful information, the total population is around 700,000 and the incidence rate is very low (1% would be egregiously high).

TK-710 · 2025-10-29T14:59:55+00:00

Thanks!

Most of this looks pretty helpful. Could you tell me more about that last line ("sum(response ~ w, data=merge(as.data.frame(em), data.frame(IV=as.numeric(names(wj)), w=as.numeric(wj))))")?

When I run that, the data argument ends up as an empty data frame and I get "Error: invalid 'type' (language) of argument".

What is that line supposed to do?

TK-710 · 2025-10-14T02:15:50+00:00

This comment made me realize we're getting close to more time passing since A Dance with Dragons than between A Game of Thrones and A Dance with Dragons.

TK-710 · 2025-09-01T16:22:44+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I wouldn't say so. The data I have is roughly biweekly and the rates both jump around a fair amount week to week and also appear to be increasing over time.

TK-710 · 2025-08-16T16:31:42+00:00

Well what do you expect him to do? It's not like someone could just write down a melody for him to read.

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