Looking through my Facebook feed I came across a post of an article from Health Magazine that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a made up disorder by big pharma to push drugs to children. The article cites another article by a Joe Jarvis in The Daily Bell that claims to prove that ADHD isContinue reading “ADHD an Invention of Big Pharma?”
Tag Archives: Psychological Testing
Testing Fairness, Outliers, and Racism
Oftentimes the importance of an issue isn’t realized until it hits home. The film Stand and Deliver tells the story of math teacher Jaime Escalante who’s students (20 in total) all passed the advanced placement (AP) Calculus test in the 1980s. The education testing service (ETS) (which administers the AP test as well as theContinue reading “Testing Fairness, Outliers, and Racism”
An In Depth Look at a Mindfulness and Stress Study
My former classmate at the University of Hartford, Tonya Jacobs, had an article described in the Huffington Post titled Mindfulness Meditation Could Lower Levels Of Cortisol, The Stress Hormone. It described her study which originally appeared in the Journal of Health Psychology. It talks about how a study was conducted of those who participated in aContinue reading “An In Depth Look at a Mindfulness and Stress Study”
Get the Lead Out
A new survey by the Centers for disease control or CDC suggests that about 500,000 children in the US have low blood lead levels (defined as 5 micrograms per deciliter) from 2007-2010. This shows an 8.6% decrease compared to the last survey period in 1999-2002. The graph at the left shows that there are higherContinue reading “Get the Lead Out”
A Morsel of Mensa Measurement
For those of you who don’t know, Mensa is an organization of individuals who score in the top 2% or 98th percentile of intelligence tests. Founded in 1946 in Great Britain in has 100,000 members worldwide and 57,000 members in the US. If the IQ tests normative data were correct, there would be 6 million ofContinue reading “A Morsel of Mensa Measurement”
Testing Question
As my readers have noticed I have been concentrating on the PUSH blog/webpage, with a new post on County Health Rankings here, but that does not mean I have forgotten about my readers. I was approached by the author of Froth Slosh B’Gosh about a mental state exam which asked a question about whether theyContinue reading “Testing Question”