User talk:RapturousRatling

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Happy editing! Jr8825 •  Talk  16:11, 15 January 2022 (UTC)


 * Hey thanks, that's really useful :D Thanks for the welcome RapturousRatling (talk) 16:41, 15 January 2022 (UTC)

ADHD
As an expert science consultant for the past 18 years, I often had to look past the authors' conclusions to their own clinical trial evidence or what they chose to cite as references. Position papers and metal-analyses can be tainted by what was chosen as inclusion/exclusion criteria. In the instance you raised, my opinion is that the World Fed report did not cite the reviews already in the Wikipedia article, and misrepresented the results of the two meta-analyses it did cite. P.S. My adult daughter has ADHD. I, on the other hand, have what I call ASD (Attention Surplus Disorder). David notMD (talk) 16:28, 9 June 2022 (UTC)


 * Ok thanks. How do you feel they misrepresented the results? I'll admit that surprises me as the report had a lot of experts involved in either writing it or reading and endorsing its conclusions. But I'm not well versed in scientific analysis and maybe that doesn't count for as much as I think! They do specify that they only include studies with more than 2000 participants and meta-analyses from five or more studies or 2000 or more participants, so I guess that excluded the studies mentioned on the Wiki page?
 * In your opinion, is there a concrete reason the sources currently cited in the ADHD article hold more weight than the World Fed report? I've been doing some skimreading but mostly just confusing myself more. Also the cited sources mention very little about adults, but the Wiki article just covers children and adults with the same broad stroke and makes it look like all the conclusions apply to everyone). RapturousRatling (talk) 22:21, 11 June 2022 (UTC)