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Evaluation of Spin in Abstracts of Papers in Psychiatry and Psychology Journals

Both clinical behavior and journal editorial decisions are often based on scientific abstracts alone rather than a consideration of the entire study and data. Consequently, any deviations between the content of these abstracts and the actual data — here referred to as “spin” — can distort the impact of the scientific literature. This 2019 paper assessed the frequency and nature of spin in the titles and abstracts of psychiatry research as one form of such distortion, finding that more than half of all psychiatric papers surveyed have titles and/or abstracts that do not accurately reflect the study results and instead present a neutral or negative finding as positive.

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Eric Ryan
September 30th, 2019 at 5:22 am
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Rafael Alves
September 30th, 2019 at 5:03 pm
The point is: the intended stimulus of Fran is not only the muscle tissue rupture, so this is why the faster you do it the closer you get to its goal.
In other hand, if you want a muscle growth-oriented stimulus, try a strict Fran.
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Bengi Goecek
September 30th, 2019 at 6:43 pm
Intended stimulus.... thats the thing I was looking for! Sure if you want more muscle size, strict fran, if you want more power output, fast fran. Thanks for the replys! Just sth I asked myself
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Bengi Goecek
September 29th, 2019 at 2:05 pm
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Lately this came to my head: Lets take the workout Fran - comparing 2 times of 2 different athletes doing the workout RX and both mechanically perfect executed, one finishing at 6:00 and the other one at 3:00. Given the weight and the pullups, the one finishing at 3:00 should have much higher power output, mathematically. And power output is directly linked to intensity. However, if we asked an athlete to do Fran very very slow in the movements, not by taking long breaks but by doing every single thruster and pullup SLOWLY (eccentric/concentric) the muscle breakdown would be much much higher than the "dynamic" and fast Fran executions although it would take lets say 15:00. So my question is, wether muscle breakdown and from that the effect of hypertrophy and adaption is linked to intensity and power output.
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David Smith
September 29th, 2019 at 7:50 pm
Sure, from what I know, longer time under tension increases muscular breakdown. That’s the whole basis behind lifting for size in body building if I understand it correctly. What’s your greater point here?
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