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closeQuestion about approriateness of article's conclusion
Posted by InferentialPolice on 20 Aug 2012 at 22:43 GMT
Assuming the therapy goal for someone with DID is to foster a degree of inter-identity communication, and noting that these study patients have been in treatment for an average of almost 9 years, isn't any detected intercommunication possibly an consequence of treatment, and indeed possibly evidence that treatment has integrative effects?
RE: Question about appropriateness of article's conclusion
InferentialPolice replied to InferentialPolice on 20 Aug 2012 at 22:52 GMT
Spellcheck -- "appropriateness" and "a consequence" rather than what I quickly typed originally
RE: RE: Question about appropriateness of article's conclusion
Tylas replied to InferentialPolice on 03 Sep 2012 at 18:53 GMT
I agree with the post above. What is presented in the article is a "confounding variable" - a variable (years in therapy) not formally a part of the correlation analysis which could well be influencing that analysis adversely. Such variables are the bane of research, and we're always looking for them. That these people didn't anticipate this problem is interesting. It's rather transparent.