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    CDC Proves Flu Vaccine Ineffective

    Who are you to judge whether this study is a useful way to measure VE (serious question)? Why don't you find the authors of this study and the CDC widely excoriated by people with expertise, if what you want to claim is true? Ah, so you did find a study which answered your question about...
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    Differing explanations of NDE's

    It wasn't facetious, by the way. Okay. That was a given. But since you are operating at the level of "it depends upon what the definition of "is" is", then I guess I will learn to tailor my responses accordingly. Okay. Linda
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    CDC Proves Flu Vaccine Ineffective

    In the study you cited, the people getting sick were unvaccinated and vaccinated. I'm an idiot for noticing this? Got it. If you are interested in whether or not vaccinated people get sick in comparison to people who are unvaccinated, then why not look at the research performed to answer this...
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    Differing explanations of NDE's

    I don't disagree with you. Research questions are turned into declarative statements in a formal proposal. I'm not sure where you are going with this. Are you expecting me to put together a formal research proposal? Or shooting the breeze on an internet forum populated mostly by lay-people...
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    Differing explanations of NDE's

    Excuse me??? I suffer no end of grief here when I point this out. Yet when I run with this and suggest a research project which would actually provide a measure of neurological processes in order to test the idea, it's suddenly a question nobody knows the answer to and can't possibly be...
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    Differing explanations of NDE's

    The hypothesis was referred to in the prior post - "do people have experiences in the absence of neurological processes and if so, what are they like?" A secondary hypothesis would be "are there experiences associated with different levels of awareness?" I would expect a window with respect...
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    Differing explanations of NDE's

    As I said, I would look at the association between the level of awareness and the kinds of experiences. That was why I said that the interviews would be collected in a timely fashion, and all experiences would be asked for and recorded. You also don't get a statistically valid sample when you...
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    CDC Proves Flu Vaccine Ineffective

    No, they are 49 to 51 (or whatever the actual numbers of subjects are) or 0.96 to 1. No, they are 55 to 45 (or whatever the actual numbers of subjects are) or 1.22 to 1. No, we would take (0.96/1)/(1.22/1) or 0.96/1.22 and get 0.79 or 79% LOL. Not knowing anything is fine, but getting...
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    CDC Proves Flu Vaccine Ineffective

    LOL. They don't have google where you live? Linda
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    CDC Proves Flu Vaccine Ineffective

    You don't know what "odds" are. Linda
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    CDC Proves Flu Vaccine Ineffective

    Sorry. I assumed some basic knowledge on your part. Odds Ratio. By using the standard formal for Odds Ratios. (Odds of being vaccinated in the "case" group)/(Odds of being vaccinated in the "control" group) The Odds Ratio formula. No, because I have the wherewithal to understand that...
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    CDC Proves Flu Vaccine Ineffective

    I explained where it came from in my first post. The ratio of the odds of vaccination in the cases over the controls would have been 0.77 (in order for VE = (1-OR)x100% to equal "23%"). I did in my first post. The use of the case-control design is well-established. If the influenza vaccine...
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    CDC Proves Flu Vaccine Ineffective

    Correct. Because your arguments aren't valid. You can't draw any meaningful conclusions about vaccine efficacy by comparing the rates of vaccination and rates of flu or flu-like illness in higher risk populations with the general population. Correct. The vaccine is more strongly advised for...
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    Differing explanations of NDE's

    A prospective cohort study with the systematic use of BIS monitors on subjects with cardiac arrest, and personnel dedicated to interviewing these subjects in a timely manner with open-ended questions (drop the use of the Greyson NDE scale and leading questions which exclude most of the...
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    CDC Proves Flu Vaccine Ineffective

    I think the problem is that you are comparing apples and sardines. You can do this if you like, but you are going to come to different conclusions that someone who is comparing apples and apples sprayed with pesticides. All you can say about the comparison you are trying to make is that some...
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    Differing explanations of NDE's

    That's a good example. Someone gets exposed to a highly selected sample of dogs - let's say dogs which their owners carry around in their purses. They are going to think of 'DOG' as small, yappy, useless things. They will be dismissive of the idea that 'DOG' can be something which is large...
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    Differing explanations of NDE's

    It's important if you want to be able to say things like, "NDEs are vivid, emotionally significant and transformative" and have it be true. Oh, not quite as salacious as I pictured, then. Happy to wipe that image from my mind. Linda
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    CDC Proves Flu Vaccine Ineffective

    It does so by making direct comparisons instead of the indirect comparisons you made (no surprise - indirect comparisons tend not to be reliable or valid, so the results from indirect comparisons often differ from direct comparisons). This is a case-control study, where the comparison is...
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    Differing explanations of NDE's

    I didn't say that people don't have emotionally charged or vivid experiences, or that some people aren't transformed by those experiences. What I was pointing out is that there is a difference between looking at a sample collected prospectively (that is, taking everyone who has had a cardiac...
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    Differing explanations of NDE's

    I think you are looking at this from the perspective of a highly selected sample. "NDE" memories aren't extremely vivid and emotionally significant. Most are not. And "non-NDE" memories are sometimes vivid and emotionally significant. What you are used to seeing is that some of those "NDE"s...
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