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Where can I read about medical science having been more focused on understanding in the past? I think the focus on small increments in (relatively) unimportant
by thingification 10y ago
Where can I read about medical science having been more focused on understanding in the past? I think the focus on small increments in (relatively) unimportant medical knowledge is perhaps the greatest tragedy of our time.
Also, who calculates dietary intake that way?
"Confusing statistical significance with practical significance" -- that's a great phrase!
- nonbel 10y ago>"Where can I read about medical science having been more focused on understanding in the past?" As far as I know no one has really written this up, it is just something you figure out by reading the literature. You see that despite the technological limitations at the time they tried to include tables of the data in as much detail as was practical and rule out competing explanations, etc. Over the decades this degenerated into testing null hypotheses and reporting p-values and averages. Now there is somewhat a recovery due to the sheer ease of transmitting information, but it is still amazing how little this is taken advantage of in general. I've thought about a book but not sure people would buy it. How much would you pay for something like that?