But wasn't it just plain fun for once? I hope not everyone is this serious
all of the time. Life is too short!
----- Original Message -----
From: Dana Levinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 21, 2001 7:41 PM
Subject: Re: Are OTs Survivors?
> Mike,
>
> You pretty much hit the nail on the head. We need to be careful with
simply
> accepting things without real scrutiny...especially in clinical
> documentation and published works (including frames of references).
>
> I've read several OT research and sometimes feel ashamed that my
profession
> could possibly publish such poor research. Over the past 15 years, I've
read
> a good share of OT research and can't even begin to express my
> disappointment in the quality of research (of course, I do not mean all OT
> research). I've run across too many published studies (one being too many)
> that used incorrect statistical models, reported inconsistent data, and
> generally used poor research methodology. To make it worse, newer research
> base their reasoning on prior junk studies.
>
> How many of us have read OT research and accepted the conclusions by the
> authors but really didn't understand the Results section? Just curious. A
> raise of hands will suffice.
>
> Don't get me wrong. I love the profession. Unfortunately, I see too many
of
> my peers blindly accepting deeds to bridges without reading the fine
print.
> Let me point out that I'm guilty of not contributing to OT research myself
> as my doctorate is in public health and have been spending more of my time
> in that field lately.
>
> Dana
>
>
> >From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: Are OTs Survivors?
> >Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 00:14:07 +0100
> >
> >Well, it's certainly not impressive, is it? Are we the weakest link? I
hope
> >we're all a lot more careful
> >when it comes to reading clinical documentation and research!
> >
> >As for Paul Scarpati's message -- I learnt not to open unexplained
> >attachments from listservs by painful
> >experience. Won't be doing it again.
> >
> >Dana Levinson wrote:
> >
> > > I have received the spam email about Karen and the Survivor show from
4
> > > differents sources. This leads me to believe that the majority of
votes
> > > Karen received were from OTs who got the email.
> > >
> > > None of the sources I received the email from cared to even read
through
> >the
> > > site to validate its purpose.
> > >
> > > Is our profession really this careless?
> > >
> > > Dana
> > >
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