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- Fri Aug 01, 2025 2:03 pm
#113807
Hey dshen,
I'm not sure I totally understand your question but I'll try -
The conclusion "So hospital patients with a greater tendency to laugh are helped more in their recovery from illness even when they laugh a little than other patients are helped when they laugh a greater amount" does not describe a prediction, you are correct, it is a hypothesis based on the study results.
The issue is that the author says people who tend to laugh a lot (we'll call them gigglers) had greater recovery gains in the study than serious people (the non-gigglers). Because of this, the author claims the gigglers don't even need to laugh as much in order to have better recovery than serious people. But the flaw is that the author didn't consider the fact that gigglers gonna giggle - their predisposition to laughing more doesn't guarantee better recovery outcomes in and of itself, but it guarantees a higher level of laughing, and the laughing gets them better recovery outcomes than more serious people.
Does that make sense?
I'm not sure I totally understand your question but I'll try -
The conclusion "So hospital patients with a greater tendency to laugh are helped more in their recovery from illness even when they laugh a little than other patients are helped when they laugh a greater amount" does not describe a prediction, you are correct, it is a hypothesis based on the study results.
The issue is that the author says people who tend to laugh a lot (we'll call them gigglers) had greater recovery gains in the study than serious people (the non-gigglers). Because of this, the author claims the gigglers don't even need to laugh as much in order to have better recovery than serious people. But the flaw is that the author didn't consider the fact that gigglers gonna giggle - their predisposition to laughing more doesn't guarantee better recovery outcomes in and of itself, but it guarantees a higher level of laughing, and the laughing gets them better recovery outcomes than more serious people.
Does that make sense?