MadcapHaskap t1_jeekcs0 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 1:21 PM

Reply to comment by Brain_Hawk in A systematic review and meta-analysis finds yoga has a moderately positive effect on the improvement of depressive symptoms but also their severity. by empty-ego

As a good generalisation, I don't take sociological studies seriously unless they figure out how to double blind it. Otherwise the effect inevitably hoes away when researchers with the opposite bias try it.

Brain_Hawk t1_jeeqlqc wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:07 PM

This isn't sociological. It's interventional psychiatry.

Some things of course cannot be blinded, because well it's an intervention that people know they got. And it will design study you can compare the efficacy of different interventions.

MadcapHaskap t1_jeetcd8 wrote on March 31, 2023 at 2:26 PM

Blinding things can be tough, sure.

But the efficacity is inevitably what the researchers think it should be. Get some researchers with a negative opinion of yoga, and you'll get negative outcomes.