Son of the Stars

Chapter 39 Relative
The statistics of mental illness has always been a headache for medical workers. In the final analysis, the artificially calculated data itself has the possibility of being "modified".

Patients may have concerns and dare not go directly to the hospital for a definite diagnosis.May lack sufficient financial income to even go to the hospital for professional help.It may also be that the doctor's level is limited and he cannot clearly distinguish the difference between organic disease and mental disease.

In short, there are too many possible causes of mental illness, and too many reasons that can distort mental illness statistics.Using such data for research and analysis is inherently embarrassing.

Fortunately, the occurrence intervals between these suspected astronomical phenomena are large enough. Li Xiaohui feels that even if there is a deviation in the data for one or two months or one or two years, the overall trend will not be deceiving.

What she is looking for is not some precisely calculated data, but a steeper growth rate line.

This job is easy to say, but to execute... is ridiculously difficult.

The incidence of human mental illness has been increasing since statistics began.Moreover, the incidence rate varies widely in regions with different cultural backgrounds.In the same year of statistics, the incidence of mental illness in the United States was more than six times that of Nigeria.Incidence rates in Asian countries range from 1.5 times that in Nigeria to 70% in the United States.

Is it because of statistical problems, or because American social culture is less friendly to psychological and spiritual conditions... This question itself cannot be answered.

Since the first statistics on the incidence of mental illnesses began in the middle and late 20th century, the lifetime prevalence of mental disorders in humans has soared.In just 30 years, the data in the United States has more than doubled.The credibility of this shift in data is also questionable -- it's hard to say what role the megacompanies developing drugs for mental illness have played.

After all, the lifetime prevalence of mental disorders in Nigeria has not tended to increase in the past 30 years - they are still 4.3%.

Similar data changes are repeated, but there is no obvious data difference.

This even made Li Xiaohui doubt her own hypothesis. Could this come from the "loud noise" in the universe, and it can't even cause human beings to fluctuate in their mental state?
Today's work was also forced to be interrupted. Director Li Xiaohui sat at her desk and started to sulk—the logic is fine, and the theory makes sense. Why can't the data reflect it?

As soon as Lu Chen returned to the office and sat down, Director Li Xiaohui grabbed him and poured out his bitterness.As a result, after hearing Director Li's complaint that "the logic is fine and the theory makes sense, but the data is wrong", Lu Chen turned his eyes round and asked, "What's so strange about this?"

Director Li's eyes widened, he was so choked that he didn't know what to say.

Lu Chen also widened his eyes - it's strange that the experiment can't do such a thing?Worthy of a full professor grabbing himself and complaining?
Although it is also a medical field, the difference between psychology and clinical is sometimes greater than the difference between humans and dogs.
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In order to maintain the "friendly atmosphere" within the entire experimental group, Yang Weimin, who learned about this incident, relied on his bruised thigh and didn't even laugh out loud.

Not being able to laugh is already the limit of Yang Weimin's efforts. As for Tang Qinglong, who doesn't like director Li Xiaohui very much, he doesn't have any psychological pressure.He frowned and criticized, "How can you take it for granted when doing research? The deviation between the data and the hypothesis is large, which means that your hypothesis is not comprehensive enough, or the direction is wrong-readjust!"

Although the three non-students present were all full professors, Academician Tang Qinglong was undoubtedly the real authority in the field of scientific research.The Department of Psychiatry, especially the Department of Psychological Medicine under the Department of Psychiatry, is actually more like a liberal arts major.

"You guys are really not very good at this kind of work, and I can understand it." Finally, Academician Tang Qinglong completed the summary with this line that clearly contained disciplinary prejudice.

Then I heard a startled and angry voice from the door, "You are sexist!"

Lu Chen suddenly covered his face, you are a guy who can perfect racism every time, have the face to criticize others?

"Dr. Giuseppe Piano." Mu Zhiran stepped forward here, staring at the mathematician with a sad face and corrected, "Teacher Tang just has some stereotypes against psychiatrists, which is not the same as sexism." It doesn't matter at all."

"Please don't give in to authority so easily, ma'am!" Giuseppe said righteously, "Although I know that this is a cultural tradition in East Asia, we should defend our dignity rather than submit..."

"That's racial discrimination." Lu Chen rolled his eyes and interrupted Giuseppe's speech, "If there is a problem with Academician Tang's speech, I think there will be a special department to deal with it."

"But we should still insist..." Giuseppe reluctantly wanted to say something, but Lu Chen didn't intend to continue listening.Dr. Lu frowned and asked, "There is a solution—you don't need to think too much about it."

After hearing this sentence, Giuseppe thought about it thoughtfully, then nodded and said, "It makes sense."

Mu Zhiran listened to this endless conversation and felt baffled, while Yang Weimin explained softly, "This is a joke...I'll send it to you."

[The engineer's house was on fire, and he took out a fire extinguisher to put out the fire. 】

[The chemist's house was on fire and he tried to put it out with a fire extinguisher, but the one he had in his hand was a carbon dioxide type - so he just put out the fire on the wires. 】

【The mathematician's house was on fire, he looked at the fire extinguisher in his house and nodded, "There is a solution", and then went back to sleep in peace. 】

Seeing that Mu Zhiran didn't seem to fully understand it, Yang Weimin could only destroy the first principle of the joke and explain, "Mathematicians only care about the solution, as for how to use and realize the solution...they have no control over this matter."

Mu Zhiran suddenly realized, nodded and praised, "Indeed, mathematicians, what they are best at is giving a very correct but useless answer for a long time."

A physicist and a clinician are joking about a mathematician.This scene has the meaning of great harmony in the world.

Director Li, who was still being criticized for lack of rigorous experimental thinking just now, came over, "Do you know how many graduate students in mathematics are needed to change a light bulb?"

"How many?" Mu Zhiran asked curiously.

"One, but it will take nine years." Director Li said seriously, "If you are a student of the physics department, seven years will be enough!"

Giuseppe looked at the three of them and said, "That... I heard it."

"What you heard was an experimental error, try to eliminate it yourself." Mu Zhiran said without turning his head, "Also, your intentional infection of the collapse theory is logically unworkable."

The discussion was boisterous and disorganized, like a pot of oatmeal simmering—or quanta of fluctuations.

Lu Chen took the opportunity to ask Director Li Xiaohui what went wrong with her research.After learning that the data changes did not match the theory, Lu Chen thought for a while and said, "General data and assumptions do not match, it is because the experiment is not accurate enough or the data is polluted... But what we are dealing with now is probably not normal. situation. To borrow a favorite 'assumption' from mathematicians..."

Ignoring Giuseppe’s protest (assuming it’s a tool, tools don’t exist, do you like it or not! I’m not an Amish!), Lu Chen continued, “Assume, the data itself is fine, and our theory is obviously fine. "

"And then?" Li Xiaohui asked, "Does it mean that our theory is not perfect yet?"

"It shows that our experiments are not comprehensive enough." Lu Chen shook his head and said, "The theory is not perfect, this is a very common situation. It is often manifested in the lack of theoretical precision, or the limited applicable environment. After all, we can only find relative truths, not absolute truths. truth."

"Not comprehensive enough? All the previous survey data have been analyzed, how can it be more comprehensive?" Li Xiaohui frowned, "I don't think the coalition government can have a more comprehensive database than what we use."

"Assuming that there is no problem, that there is no problem with the logic, that there is no problem with the database, isn't the answer ready?" Lu Chen's eyes lit up, "SN-1054, Tianguan guest star—isn't this the only suspect?"

The discussion between the two aroused the opinions of other people around, but Lu Chen, who was getting more and more excited, didn't notice this.He continued to raise his voice and said, "The Tianguan guest star happened too early. During the Northern Song Dynasty, it was of course impossible to conduct any epidemiological investigation of mental illness in the world. So it is normal to lack data."

"The impact of the Tianguan guest star has continued until recently. During such a long-term impact process, it is normal that the data does not show obvious changes-because the benchmark data itself is abnormal." Lu Chen quickly said, " Already soaked in water, of course you won’t notice it’s raining.”

(End of this chapter)