This is helpful information for a particular project I'm interested in, but the writing quality is so poor in the abstract that I will not likely access the full text. At some point, it is so difficult to battle through poor grammar and syntax that the benefits of finding and reading the full text seem unlikely to justify the effort involved.
I am not enough of a statistician to understand whether the within-subject measurements allowed these researchers to make claims, but it does seem to be an exceptionally small number of subjects (N=7).
Interesting. I was only aware of Weiner's attribution theory. It seems that Kelley's would be more applicable when seeking to understand others' behavior, rather than causal attribution of phenomena. The application fo Dempster–Shafer's theory of evidence, along with the use of basic probability assignment helps to understand that most bewildering of phenomena: human behavior.
It is worth noting that Airbnb has increasingly marketed listings to business travelers, and the expectation is no longer that these short term rentals are only for vacationers; therefore, understanding of the dynamics in non-tourist locations can help us better understand the phenomenon of peer-to-peer rentals.
Wow! It's really useful to know about insideairbnb.com. I hope that the authors are planning additional analyses of other geographic locations. I would not have realized that safety would be the number one guest concern, though it does make intuitive sense.
It is unfortunate that only one society responded from low-income countries, and none from Africa. I wonder what the World Hypertension League could have done to encourage greater diversity of participating organizations.
SO much more needs to be known about the effects of alcohol on blood pressure--in this study, the effects are quite different between men and women; other studies have identified variation between white womn and black women.
Excellent design, accountability (published protocol prior to study), and write-up, albeit with disappointing results. It is just as important to publish "no effect" studies as those with impressive effects!
This abstract demonstrates the unfortunate practice of cherry-picking conclusions from an array of results. That is, the Conclusion is "By week 8 the mindfulness group had lower clinically measured SBP, 24-hour SBP, at-rest SBP and diastolic BP values." whereas the full abstract indicates that all improvements had dissipated by week 20.
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