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Doctors are probably better, or at least no worse, than the general population on that account. The problem is that "statistical reasoning" is so alien to norm
by crpatino 11y ago
Doctors are probably better, or at least no worse, than the general population on that account.
The problem is that "statistical reasoning" is so alien to normal de facto human reasoning that you need years of training before it sets in. Doctors are already taking on a completely different set of extensive training, and their elders did fine with only the most basic statistics knowledge, so clearly (sigh) there's no need to dig into the fancy pants version of the thing.
Epidemiologists probably know better, but how do you have them explain to the GPs that this is a useful tool to have???