Maybe this is addressed somewhere and Iâve missed it, but âdo you use tryptamines to treat your headachesâ shouldnât be a yes/âno questionâshouldnât the options be ânever tried,â âtried and stopped for some reasonâ or âyes I use them to treat my headachesâ?
It seems like the current framing is going to overrepresent people who find tryptamines helpful, because people who tried them and didnât find them effective or discontinued due to side effects are currently in the âdonât use tryptaminesâ category.
Thatâs a good point, thank you. We should distinguish between lifetime use and current use in future surveys. Perhaps even asking whether âthey worked the first time you used themâ to see if people who currently use them had a better reaction to their first try relative to those who did try them at some point but do not currently use them.
I would add that other reasons why people might have used them in the past but donât currently include âcanât access it nowâ, âtoo afraid of legal repercussionsâ, and âsocial stigmaâ. While discontinuing them due to side-effects and lack of effectiveness can make them look more effective than they are among the âuse themâ group, the other reasons for discontinuation do not have this effect. I donât know what % of past users discontinued for which reason, and that seems like a good thing to find out.
Maybe this is addressed somewhere and Iâve missed it, but âdo you use tryptamines to treat your headachesâ shouldnât be a yes/âno questionâshouldnât the options be ânever tried,â âtried and stopped for some reasonâ or âyes I use them to treat my headachesâ?
It seems like the current framing is going to overrepresent people who find tryptamines helpful, because people who tried them and didnât find them effective or discontinued due to side effects are currently in the âdonât use tryptaminesâ category.
Thatâs a good point, thank you. We should distinguish between lifetime use and current use in future surveys. Perhaps even asking whether âthey worked the first time you used themâ to see if people who currently use them had a better reaction to their first try relative to those who did try them at some point but do not currently use them.
I would add that other reasons why people might have used them in the past but donât currently include âcanât access it nowâ, âtoo afraid of legal repercussionsâ, and âsocial stigmaâ. While discontinuing them due to side-effects and lack of effectiveness can make them look more effective than they are among the âuse themâ group, the other reasons for discontinuation do not have this effect. I donât know what % of past users discontinued for which reason, and that seems like a good thing to find out.