These interventions are hokey and their advocates are prone to overpromising given their weak fundamentals and reasonable priors on interventions effects. It's unclear whether there's any permutation of mindfulness interventions that would do all that they've been alleged to.
When researchers assess kids' toy preferences, that's the dichotomy they use. Really!
Across many articles, the most "boy-related" toys are thought to be vehicles and the most "girl-related" ones, dolls.
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Sex differences in kids' toy preferences are huge. That's true whether you're looking at vehicles and dolls or every other type of toy.
When kids are allowed to just go about and choose their toys, there's a large difference. When they play freely, larger.
When they're presented with images of toys and they choose which to look at, there's still a sizable difference, but it's not as large due to the format.
It's pretty clear that gay men beat a potential monkeypox crisis by getting vaccinated.
By not being vaccine hesitant, they caused a pandemic to peak and recede in under a year's time.
In this study, a single dose of the vaccine was estimated at 86% effectiveness, putting it on par with two doses of the polio vaccine (90% effective) for preventing paralytic polio.
Beating the next big disease is going to be as much about inculcating positive attitudes towards medicine in the public as it will be about developing preventative measures in the first place.
I'll wager public attitudes will even be more important for the foreseeable future.