Quita's Posts - THE RED PILL2024-03-28T12:48:59ZQuitahttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/profile/Quitahttps://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1547510207?profile=RESIZE_48X48&width=48&height=48&crop=1%3A1https://redpilltraining.ning.com/profiles/blog/feed?user=3cvdmh7p0u53x&xn_auth=noA rant/ plus my continued quest to learn epidemiologytag:redpilltraining.ning.com,2011-03-18:3561936:BlogPost:155812011-03-18T03:30:00.000ZQuitahttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/profile/Quita
<p>I am undertaking some difficult classes these days. Speaking with Mr. Black a week or so ago, I was reminded of using a technique for remembering. I guess I have used some techniques in the past, but I did not "know" what to call them. I did not know that people pay thousands of dollars to learn "how to learn," or use some techniques someone in Memphis is trying to inspire people to teach THEMSELVES. Yes... we have a man in our town who has mastered much of what there is to know about…</p>
<p>I am undertaking some difficult classes these days. Speaking with Mr. Black a week or so ago, I was reminded of using a technique for remembering. I guess I have used some techniques in the past, but I did not "know" what to call them. I did not know that people pay thousands of dollars to learn "how to learn," or use some techniques someone in Memphis is trying to inspire people to teach THEMSELVES. Yes... we have a man in our town who has mastered much of what there is to know about learning and no one is listening... It amazes me sometimes that people are not listening to this man... seriously listening... many talk so damn much that they are not actually learning a damn thang--only in a constant rhetorical debate. If he put a hefty charge on it--it would be valued way more... People don't value free so they don't take it seriously... Ain't nuthin' worth nuthin' free--so what he's giving is actually of great value but one has to work hard as hell (paying a price) to benefit from it.</p>
<p>Shifting gears...I have always been a quiet person , but for good reason... I am always learning... and I find it true that one cannot learn if they are talking all the time... Active listening requires that you shut the hell up... Any way.. I sure wish he was someone I knew when I was younger and more eager for knowledge than I am now. I mean now I love to learn, but I have so much other stuff on my plate that its hard to juggle it all. </p>
<p>When wise ones speak I listen... I was told that if I didn't do something soon--I was going to blow a circuit. I am obviously tired all the time... hell I have 3 kids, teach at a local university, work in a clinic, and going to school fulltime!!! My kids are spoiled little people... He says, "I don't know how you manage to do it," and I really can not put a name on a technique that I use... I just do some weird shit to learn some difficult material... I "dumb it down" so I can understand it... but I do...</p>
<p>I'm no genius, but I love learning... Ya'll better listen to this man.. I do and I am in the process of practicing to further enhance my "memory."</p>
<p>I have been able to excel in school and people that really know me quite often ask how I have done what I have been able to do (being a single mom of three)- work, school, etc. Its simple- make no excuses and just do it. Set a goal and reach it... if it has been done by one you can do it too. That's how I see it.</p>
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<p>I did have to develop some techniques to recall such a wealth of information in my younger years. I was a very stubborn child and never gave up on anything.... If I couldn't do something-- I'd practice and practice until I could. If my sister is reading this ... I know she may recall the shoe tie-ing day... ! I learned how to tie my shoes in one day when i was young.. stayed in my room literally all day until I did it... I did not eat! LOL - STUBBORN</p>
<p>I can remember learning about DNA in my biology class in high school (my favorite). I took a mental picture of DNA and the process of mitosis, and played it like a movie in my head from start to finish... I made up a silly mnemonic to remember the bases and I was able to ace every test in biology that I took by doing that... I did not know at the time that I was using certain techniques for recall. I wanted to be a scientist!</p>
<p>As time went on I continued to use these things to learn complex information - to self I had to dumb down the material for myself manner (making up scenarios and silly things to remember stuff). I was the leader for my study group in college (classmates were all older than me ) and there was not much that I did not understand and if I had a problem I would stay up all night until I did... I used to make up stuff to remember all that material in nursing school and it was silly- they used to look at me crazy but I always performed well. I graduated from nursing school at age 19 with an associate's degree in nursing and now I have a master's degree. i knew where I wanted to go before I even graduated back then... it took me a while but I reached my goals....but not without a price.</p>
<p>I have been falling asleep on books since I was a youngster. My mom had to make me go to bed sometimes because I would stay up so late studying. Now. that I have gotten older and have more responsibility I do not use these techniques I had no name for as much... but with the help of (B) I am now using them and incorportating what he has mentioned to me(linking and pegging) to file my knowledge.</p>
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<p>any way on to my purpose for writing this blog... I have a test coming up in epidemiology regarding estimating types of risk. What is risk?</p>
<p>I am living a risky fast life if I walk the streets. When I do this I get attacked and then I get a new disease; now I am an absolute risk to everyone I meet.The following is the explanation of risk in epidemiology.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>Risk</strong></span></p>
<p>Incidence of Disease =Absolute Risk</p>
<p>(Attack Rate)</p>
<p>Attack rate and incidence of disease are synonymous and it tells you the absolute risk.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Now we have to figure out excess risk ( you know you hear people say if you smoke you're at risk for lung cancer) the following is the explanation for figuring this out.</p>
<p>There are three types of risk that we are learning to estimate- relative risk or ratio of risk; odds ratio, and attributable risk.So how did I learn these..</p>
<p> To learn this I pictured a reunion picnic with relatives. Everyone has to bring something to eat. Some relatives are eating and some are just sitting around talking The relatives who were eating( exposed to the food) go lay down in beds in a big house and the people who were not eating (not exposed) are downstairs (underneath them. thus the formula for relative risk(RR) =</p>
<p> <strong> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">risk of exposed</span></strong></p>
<p><strong> RR= risk non exposed</strong></p>
<p> </p>
<p>The incidence of exposed is laying on top of the division line over the non-exposed.</p>
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<p>Now remember we have this big family and when relatives get together they get silly. Everyone comes in the house because its raining, but now Everybody is treating the people differently who ate. The people who ate (exposed ) are told to get off the beds and go in the left room of the house and then the people who did not eat (not exposed) went far away from them. To calculate the differnce of risk the formula is</p>
<p><strong> risk of exposed - risk of non exposed</strong></p>
<p>Here you place risk of exposed on left side and subtract non exposed from it to get the difference of risk.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>We use relative risk to determine risks in cohort studies (cohorts are a group of people who have some similar traits-like relatives)= this is important because a different design- case studies use odds ratio...</p>
<p>Seems silly... yes but we have to remember formulas to perform some calculations. y not just memorize the formula? You can but it can be recalled better if you LINK it to something that is easily retrievable.</p>
<p>Well that's all for now... stay tuned for my breakdown of odds ratio and attributable risk</p>
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<p>The text in parentheses explains what relationship the words in this poem have to the concepts in epidemiology and stats... these are some tough relationships to remember but I thought that using something I like to do (writing poems and lyrics) would help me learn this high level math. Hope you can use this to assist you. It may not help you or make sense to you but it really has helped me.</p>
<p>Namaska</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I'm trying to get a PhD</p>
<p>I took statistics but they still tryna…</p>
<p>The text in parentheses explains what relationship the words in this poem have to the concepts in epidemiology and stats... these are some tough relationships to remember but I thought that using something I like to do (writing poems and lyrics) would help me learn this high level math. Hope you can use this to assist you. It may not help you or make sense to you but it really has helped me.</p>
<p>Namaska</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I'm trying to get a PhD</p>
<p>I took statistics but they still tryna school me</p>
<p>to evaluate the health of the community</p>
<p>I was forced to take epidemiology</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Now what does it mean</p>
<p>Epidemiology's purpose is to halt or prevent disease</p>
<p>Improves health</p>
<p>In not just one but everybody (ind vs population)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The gold standard is a RCT (randomized clinical trial)</p>
<p>For evaluat<span style="text-decoration: underline;">ing</span></p>
<p>New treatments,interventions and screen<span style="text-decoration: underline;">ings</span></p>
<p>Some times we wanna see</p>
<p>If its better than old things (use epi to evaluate screening programs)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>But I gotta be careful</p>
<p>Pick my subjects right</p>
<p>So my study is replicable</p>
<p>My criteria must be precise (selection of participants to prevent bias)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I don’t know where they will go</p>
<p>some over here over there (randomization)</p>
<p>I study series in a case</p>
<p>If I don’t compare (case studies and series)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>But sometimes I should</p>
<p>To check the relation</p>
<p>If the treatment made a difference</p>
<p>What caused the assumption?(importance of RCT)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Then I try to control</p>
<p>With historical groves (historical controls)</p>
<p>And at the same time select my folks out of control (simultaneous randomized control groups)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Pick a day, pick a month, pick a time pick a year</p>
<p>Whatever so I don’t see who you are my dear (blinding)</p>
<p> Because if I know might be inclined to pick a side my dear (bias)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>So I flip a coin</p>
<p>Tails or head</p>
<p>More likely that they’ll be</p>
<p>Representative(randomization)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>So I match what I know and on those things control</p>
<p>Age, black or white … stratify like clothes (lol stratified randomization based on a characteristic)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I crossover like a ball player</p>
<p>But I washout before</p>
<p>I play on another team</p>
<p>And I feel my own control (crossover groups receive both treatments and serve as their own contols)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Now here comes the fun when the hypothesis is done</p>
<p>Do I accept or reject</p>
<p>I choose the outcome</p>
<p>From four possibilities</p>
<p>O what have I done</p>
<p> </p>
<p>There’s a difference but I said there was none</p>
<p>type 1 error man what have I done</p>
<p>If I say that it is and there really isnt</p>
<p> type 2 on my mind man I did it again ( the two types of errors in stats are type 1 and type 2)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Probability I make</p>
<p>Errors mistakes</p>
<p>what do you say?</p>
<p>Alpha is the first (type 1 stats use alpha symbol)</p>
<p>The second B.E.T.A (type 2 stats use beta symbol)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Alpha is first...also is p</p>
<p>The value of 0.5 or less I like to see ( this value denotes statistical significance)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>I'm like public enemny</p>
<p>To fight the power that be</p>
<p>In my study Take away 1 from B (1 subtract beta)</p>
<p>If its hi this tells me (power)</p>
<p>How strong the difference is in my study (correctly id difference)</p>
<p>And also how many people I need (sample size)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>First I gotta set my expectations</p>
<p>Estimate response to move to perfection</p>
<p>I’m satisfied if alpha <0.1 or 0.5</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Now the question</p>
<p>Do I do one or do I figure 2 sides( one direction or both directions on a normal distribution curve)</p>
<p> </p>
<p>If its effective I put every body and take away over the fake (placebo-tx/placebo)- chks efficacy</p>
<p>And this will tell me if what I did worked or if it’s a waste</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The number I need to treat prevents people from going away</p>
<p>From death or disease I wish they all could stay</p>
<p>The number needed to harm</p>
<p>Tells me who else could be harmed</p>
<p>Don’t wanna feel no cold just wanna stay warm</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Validate from withing make sure everythings done right</p>
<p>Validate send it out</p>
<p>generalize hope it works out!</p>
<p> </p>
<p>So they made me take it</p>
<p>And I gotta learn it</p>
<p>They won't give it to me</p>
<p>so I gotta earn it</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Gettin my PhD</p>
<p>A scientist I must be</p>
<p>gotta lot to figure out</p>
<p>plus I wanna lot of cheese...</p>A Homeschooled child prodigy....GED to instructor at Berklee to Grammy winner Check out her sitetag:redpilltraining.ning.com,2011-02-17:3561936:BlogPost:119642011-02-17T15:00:00.000ZQuitahttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/profile/Quita
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<p> I have wanted to ask this question... so here goes</p>
<p>I have attended the seminars on race and fully understand how this concept of race came about. I am working on my dissertation and the literature that I am reading refer to race as a characteristics that is a determinant of specific risk factors (high blood pressure, obesity, kidney disease, depression). When statistics were run on a study similiar to the one I am working on it "showed" that there was a significant difference of a…</p>
<p> I have wanted to ask this question... so here goes</p>
<p>I have attended the seminars on race and fully understand how this concept of race came about. I am working on my dissertation and the literature that I am reading refer to race as a characteristics that is a determinant of specific risk factors (high blood pressure, obesity, kidney disease, depression). When statistics were run on a study similiar to the one I am working on it "showed" that there was a significant difference of a particular illness relative to "race" Additionally the investigator looked at age, income, etc.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>These descriptive analyses are done so clinicians know what population or individual to target for disease prevention/teaching, etc.... in hopes that we can eradicate illness incidence/prevalence in a certain population.</p>
<p> </p>
<p> In my practice I see that folks of my skin color and darker are plagued with diseases like kidney failure, hypertension(high blood pressure), stroke, obesity, and diabetes at a disproportional rate than other "colors" of people. What are your thoughts on race relative to health/health outcomes.</p>How one young man accomplished big things in small piecestag:redpilltraining.ning.com,2011-01-13:3561936:BlogPost:92492011-01-13T18:20:40.000ZQuitahttps://redpilltraining.ning.com/profile/Quita
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<p>Check out this podcast and share your thoughts.</p>
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<p><a target="_blank" href="http://www.npr.org/2011/01/11/132833376/tiger-mothers-raising-children-the-chinese-way">http://www.npr.org/2011/01/11/132833376/tiger-mothers-raising-children-the-chinese-way</a></p>
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<p>Check out this podcast and share your thoughts.</p>
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