Short thread on TERRIBLE and problematic headline from CNN. To be clear, I hope it turns out hydroxychloroquine (or any other drug) works, because that would be great. But this study doesn't show that.
First, why problematic? Because people only read headlines.
1) Study had no random selection. Instead, patients were selected based on criteria. Those with heart problems didn't get hydroxychloroquine. It could be that hydroxychloroquine helped, or just that patients without heart problems are less likely to die of COVID.
2) Patients who got hydroxychloroquine were also more than twice as likely to get the steroid dexamethasone, which has been shown to help with COVID. Again, maybe it was the hydroxychloroquine that helped, but maybe it was actually the dexamethasone. We don't know!
3) 10% of the study population is still in the hospital. That's an enormous part of people who are still very sick (otherwise they wouldn't be in the hospital). Yet these people were excluded from the results. This can happen when researchers rush to publish a provocative result.
Anyone can be consistent for a few days. It’s harder to be consistent for years upon years, through ups, downs, everything in between.
Here are 7 ideas from Master of Change that resonate with readers most.
On what it takes to stay steady amidst challenge and grow from change:
1. View life as a continuous cycle of order, disorder, reorder.
You may crave order and stability, but that stability is a moving target—it's always somewhere new. It doesn't come from resisting change. It comes from working with it.
You are always somewhere in the cycle of order, disorder, reorder.
A psychological construct called self-complexity says that the key to a strong and enduring identity—one that is equal parts rugged and flexible, that can navigate the inevitable changes we all face—is to diversify your sense of self.
Important thread 👇👇
The more you define yourself by any one activity, the more fragile you become. If that activity doesn’t go well or something changes unexpectedly, you lose a sense of who you are.
But with self-complexity, you have develop multiple components to your identity.