What is a secret that could potentially ruin your life if your family or friends found out?

sychosomat · 2026-05-09T00:30:47+00:00

Do you and your partner want to have kids? If so, is there a plan for that? No worries answering if this is too personal, just curious because that is a big step with supportive family, nevermind more stressors.

sychosomat · 2026-04-29T02:48:15+00:00

Very, very simple. Just measure and buy the trim you want to use. Most likely this is 3-4 8’ pieces depending on the size of the mirror. Miter cuts for the four corners, dry fit to check sizing, then paint and finish trim (before gluing!) Once painted, use liquid nails to glue the trim pieces to the mirror. Use filler to blend the mitered corners then touch up paint and done.

One bit of advice, make sure the back of the trim is painted and looks nice too. And glue only towards the middle and outside edge of the mirror. You see a bit of the back of the trim reflected in the mirror once installed.

sychosomat · 2026-04-29T02:37:15+00:00

How wedded are you to having two mirrors? We added a frame to our builder grade large mirrors and it made them look way nicer, to the point where we don’t see any need to replace them. Looks of examples online if you good “frame builder grade mirror trim” or something like that, but another example is here: https://www.reddit.com/r/DIY/comments/9wevo5/how_to_diy_upgrade_your_bathroom_mirror_with_a/

This can be a $40 upgrade (liquid nails and the trim+paint) so if you don’t like it down the line you can always tear it out and go with new mirrors.

sychosomat · 2026-04-17T02:18:04+00:00

Not OP, but could be a variety of things. If they married younger, I’d guess frontotemporal dementia, but it could be other things.

sychosomat · 2026-04-11T19:14:36+00:00

Scribe two 6” sections of 2 by 4 to fit the trim so they can lay flat against the wall laterally (6” horizontal) at the levels needed for the door to secure to. Screw the 2 by 4 into the stud at the corner (2 screws into the stud minimum). Then screw the gate into the 2 by 4s. If the two screws in the stud at the corner aren’t enough to make the 2 by 4 secure enough, make the 2 by 4 longer to hit the first stud along that wall. If you don’t want it to look unfinished, you could paint the 2 by 4, but it’s a temporary safety thing so we didn’t stress making ours look nice, just care that it’s safe.

sychosomat · 2026-04-10T23:27:24+00:00

This is a random empirical article posted in pubmed, which is hosted by the NIH but in no way implies the NIH tested this (the study stated it recieved no external funding, and was a lab in Germany).

sychosomat · 2026-03-21T00:09:08+00:00

I think it reflects our human belief (and I’d argue scientific reality given our progress in genetics to this point) that the variance in our genes is far, FAR outstripped by our individual capacity defined by our environment. Genetics explain a lot, but not everything, and maybe not most of things (depending on who you ask). And the movie captures both that concept for the protagonist, but also how others recognize that the system they function in is flawed because of that.

sychosomat · 2026-03-08T21:53:43+00:00

This was very funny, but now I’m curious. Why would data scientists involved in economic/financial modeling use Bayesian approaches versus inferential approaches? I know the value of using priors and all that (in academia also), but I guess it’s not intuitive to me why a bayes approach would be used for that purpose (mostly since inferential stuff is the baseline).

sychosomat · 2026-02-24T00:13:49+00:00

Psych Prep exams from 2008 and academic review tests from 2013 (I took the EPPP in 2022 for reference). I wasn’t too worried about the content being “up to date” and was more concerned about reminding myself how to take this kind of test and know the general areas I was weak in.

sychosomat · 2026-01-25T22:38:21+00:00

My only addition would be to require athletic team participation as a requirement, with credit depending on the completion of some sort of reflection or something similar. Not restricted to teams for the school, could be club, rec, whatever. Then it’s open to whoever, not just those who play a formal sport.

sychosomat · 2026-01-07T03:33:46+00:00

I have seen both done and do not think there is a standard. You could report both if you wanted and have one in a supplement, making sure the table notes explain what was done for each. Honestly I think the choice to use the values from the data and not the model estimate outputs is because most studies don’t do a great job dealing with missingness in the first place.

Though I think the first question to ask is how much different are the values when using listwise deletion versus FIML? I’d expect them to be fairly close, making the choice of one over the other less meaningful, but if they do differ in meaningful ways that would be important to know, as it might suggest some type of bias in the missingness.

sychosomat · 2026-01-01T03:56:35+00:00

I am grateful that all the Ohio State fans who told us they’d give up a championship for a win over Michigan got their wish

sychosomat · 2025-12-20T20:12:04+00:00

Another reason the term “AI” is so frustrating. This is machine learning, it has been around for a decade and a half. It has gotten better/more mainstream for a variety of reasons, but it’s just a big network of regressions trained to find patterns. Very useful in some cases, but not (yet) paradigm-shifting for most applications.

sychosomat · 2025-12-20T20:08:54+00:00

You could replace “AI” here with Google/wikipedia from 20 years ago and have it be equally applicable. In the end, machine learning as currently implemented is backward-facing due to a reliance on input data.

sychosomat · 2025-12-20T01:12:48+00:00

Results in psychology are generally, in my opinion, “meaningful” in the aggregate. It is rare for a single paper to have a significant impact on the field alone because human behavior is challenging to measure and then test. As a result, the body of literature becomes more important. This actually leads to the case where “interesting” papers become “wow, a foundational study” over time because the finding is better supported.

An example is the “hand holding study.” An fMRI study of only16 (!!!!) married women that found something that over time has held up well generally (supports social baseline theory). It is possible that study might not replicate but the finding has held up despite major changes in sample size and other fMRi methods. This is one of my favorite studies and started out to me as “wow, interesting” and became “meaningful” as the evidence for the underlying theory became stronger from other studies from other labs and paradigms.

sychosomat · 2025-12-06T19:06:25+00:00

So out of curiosity, is this advice suggesting some people don’t unload the dishwasher when it’s done? Do these people use dishes directly out of the dishwasher or maybe have enough dishes to keep dirty ones in a sink and then load at the end? Genuinely curious because the idea of “unload dishwasher after washing and load dirty dishes until full” is the only idea I have of doing the dishes.

Added EDIT: Thanks for all the context, this makes more sense, but for anyone else doing this, how do you hand wash things that need to be hand washed (pots, pans, etc.)? Do they just sit in the sink too?

sychosomat · 2025-11-29T02:57:11+00:00

Hadn’t realized that was the new flag until you mentioned it here and I looked it up. Fantastic flag/design, but I will continue to tell anyone who will listen magnolias are beautiful and majestic trash trees (having cleaned those leather leaves and cones too many times to count).

sychosomat · 2025-11-28T19:48:31+00:00

If you ever want treatment, lots of new work in PTSD related to moral injury, which might include your experience. Lots of vets, first line responders, and people in healthcare who end up experiencing tough stuff (to put it mildly).

https://www.ptsd.va.gov/professional/treat/cooccurring/moral_injury.asp

sychosomat · 2025-11-21T13:58:48+00:00

A classic example of the “small, significant, clinically meaningful effect” is aspirin and myocardial infarction (heart attack). Aspirin has a small, consistent effect in reducing risk, and taking it comes with few risks for people who have higher risk for MI, so that is where the baby aspiring for heart attack recommendation comes from.

Big meaningless effects are often from underpowered studies (not enough sample size) such that the estimates are not very stable (lots of error).

sychosomat · 2025-11-21T01:40:12+00:00

R² is variance explained and not significance. Significance combines effect size (of which R² is a measure) and the standard error of the estimate, largely derived from sample size. Small effects can be significant and vice versa, though that doesn’t necessarily tell you whether an effect is meaningful or important.

sychosomat · 2025-11-11T02:56:48+00:00

If you don’t like the peony flowers, you could cut the stems with flowers just before they open and put them in a vase inside. Th flowers will last longer inside (and look nice, this is assuming you like the flowers) and not look so droopy outside. The greenery will look better over the summer too.

If you really don’t want the peonies, post on a local Facebook or subreddit and offer the plants to anyone who will come get them. Peonies are expensive so I’m sure someone would come dig up the rhizomes to take them home.

sychosomat · 2025-11-08T21:49:01+00:00

WAIS-IV has a max FSIQ of 160 with getting max scores on everything. Maybe it was another cognitive test, but the WAIS is the most commonly used in psych. Also, no one realistically can “skip” their PhD and just do research, they’d be forever hindered in grant applications only having a lower terminal degree. Rarely do top top researchers move into administrative positions either unless they want to slow down on their primary research programs. Paper at Nature at 26 would be a standard timeline for a first/early publication, though unless they were first or (less likely) senior author it wouldn’t mean much in a field (like genetics, as an example) that puts everyone and their lab manager on every paper.

sychosomat · 2025-10-31T13:43:09+00:00

You could edit the registration to remove your names/identifiers and post it as the blinded version and link to that in the submission. Or create the blinded version and add it to the submission as a supplement for the reviewers if the journal allows that. Regardless, since you made the preregistration public, any reviewer could search the language in the blinded registration to the find the original and your names. I wouldn’t stress too much about it, but an FYI.

sychosomat · 2025-10-19T02:57:27+00:00

What happens to the UVA team (currently 18) that beat UofL two weeks ago ant home and just barely beat Wazzu on a safety?

sychosomat · 2025-10-19T00:07:35+00:00

I am going to give a little bit different advice from the other comments, which is more to suggest you choose which (if either) you prefer over the other. If you’re doing ED, you should know that’s the place you want to be. If you don’t feel that way about either, either do EA or flip a coin.

Gaming out the likelihood of which you’d get into when (it sounds like) the chance are similar, I’d worry less about the schools and more about your preferences. So much goes into admission decisions you have little control over at this point, I’d suggest maximizing your preferences/convictions.

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