tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post6288825016888316077..comments2024-03-28T02:44:22.875-04:00Comments on Hecate: Resilient ThisHecatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09291488568404382739noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post-58939732060896154422009-02-21T19:25:00.000-05:002009-02-21T19:25:00.000-05:00Great post Hecate, and fascinating. I agree with y...Great post Hecate, and fascinating. I agree with you. I know I was almost mute in elementary school and middle school. That is how girls tend to "cope". They retreat within themselves to dark places. It is emotionally, severely damaging and horrifying, because so many girls all over the world suffer from this.<BR/>But then, you are doing the right thing by letting us all know. That is your way, Hecate.LittleIsishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13845216753248417534noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post-10636509930149896452009-02-18T15:37:00.000-05:002009-02-18T15:37:00.000-05:00Excellent post (as always), so much of it struck v...Excellent post (as always), so much of it struck very close to home!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post-68341358147720391232009-02-18T15:35:00.000-05:002009-02-18T15:35:00.000-05:00This is as bad as medical clinical trials excludin...This is as bad as medical clinical trials excluding women because they "skew the data". Instead of realizing women have somewhat different biologies and teaching med students about how both respond to different drugs and treatments, they just assume women will react like smaller men.<BR/><BR/>Assuming the same thing psycholgically is just as dangerous. When will our scientists learn they they need to study both!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post-61508404614889882182009-02-18T00:34:00.000-05:002009-02-18T00:34:00.000-05:00This sounds like way too little jam spread over wa...This sounds like way too little jam spread over way too much bread. The sample size was very small for starters (although fair sized for a presumably independently-financed project by a state university.) And a short story in the popular press is not going to give the details I'm interested in anyway.<BR/><BR/>But to take up your point, it sounds to me like they asked about the factors that could be most easily verified from public records. Encounters with law enforcement: easy. Medical incidents like cutting: hard. Self-destructive fuckupedness like overfondness for controlling asshole boyfriends: impossible. Unless they self-reveal in the interview...possible if the interviewers were very good but impossible to prove. So worthless statistically. <BR/><BR/>But my qualms start not with the kids' status but with the parent. Where was the parent sample recruited? I'm gonna guess not at Betty Ford or some other high-class rehab center where the well-to-do-enough-to-be-insured folk tend to go. And I strongly doubt that very many middle class junkies would agree to paticipate in such a project anyway. <BR/><BR/>Heroin addiction is overwhelmingly a disease of the <I>poor</I>. Most likely the parents were recruited at free methadone clinics or similar charity treatment facilities. Nowhere in this story is there mention of the socioeconomic class of the parent generation. <BR/><BR/>Barely mentioned are the other "problems" the parent generation had, including mental illness. That has a genetic component, and addictive behavior may have one of its own. But social class is the most genetically-determined aspect of everyone's life: you almost always wind up in the same class as your parents, moving up or down one level at most. <BR/><BR/>So in conclusion I agree with you the study is somewhere between worthless and actively evil, however well-intentioned the researchers may have been. They asked the wrong questions of too few people and tried to generalize that to the whole population. Feh and ptooey.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9085926.post-31343854844510499702009-02-17T23:51:00.000-05:002009-02-17T23:51:00.000-05:00They seem to confuse better with differently.This ...They seem to confuse better with differently.<BR/><BR/>This is not a good thing.<BR/><BR/>(Yeah, yeah, I know I'm soaking in it.)<BR/><BR/>*Deep sigh*Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com