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I was quite unaware of these biases in meta analyses, thanks for this! I confess to being rosy myself on the topic, and will need to be more qualified in future.
It becomes clear that the scope of the post is evaluating the evidence for mindfulness meditation as a therapeutic tool. Totally fair. However, as the intro (and the title) seem much broader in scope perhaps it’s worth mentioning the non-trivial point that insight practices offer a lot more than that. Although I do not pray, if pondering “is prayer good for you?” I can appreciate a host of benefits
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Totally agree. I think the analysis in the post is useful but proponents of meditation claim that it has many benefits beyond what is examined here. I think that this short lesson (6min 39s) from Sam Harris is a good answer to this post. And what he says corresponds to my personal experience.
Thank you SO much for putting this together. Tax regime in the UK is super non-intuitive to me (I've only ever just had to deduct donation from taxable income to calculate my new tax position).
Your spreadsheet helped me properly understand how GiftAid works. Really good job!