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I’d also posit that female ER doctors could as a group, simply be better than the average male. Not inherent to their gender, but because they are a more motiv
by dahdum 8y ago
I’d also posit that female ER doctors could as a group, simply be better than the average male.
Not inherent to their gender, but because they are a more motivated group to overcome the systemic bias in medicine to get there.
If you get to 50/50 this would mean the stats converge, but the same findings would need to be repeated across other conditions as well.
- Axsuul 8y agoThen we would've seen the same trend with female doctors treating male patients.
- majos 8y agoNot necessarily. It could be that only good doctors treat female patients well, while all doctors treat male patients well. For example, if women patients are in some way harder cases while male patients are not, then treatment of women patients may separate good doctors from the rest.
- wahern 8y agoAlternatively, women patients speak differently to male doctors in ways that make it more difficult to make accurate and reliable diagnoses. Educated professionals are certainly capable of exhibiting bias. But professionals are also more aware of the issue, and are even taught (formally and informally) compensating strategies. People off the street? Not so much....
- Broken_Hippo 8y agoOR just that female doctors paid more attention to the fact that heart attack symptoms are different for women than for men. This may be as simple as it affecting them. If the male takes longer to recognise heart attack symptoms of females, it could easily produce worse results. https://www.healthline.com/health/heart-disease/heart-attack-symptoms https://www.healthline.com/health/heart-disease/heart-attack...
- 08-15 8y agoMaybe we have? The article says "the other differences were not significant", but that does not mean there was no difference. It means "there was not enough evidence to reject the assumption that there were no other differences". That's one problem with this kind of statistics: absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, but people (including head line writers) act as if it was.
- sitkack 8y agoI have noticed the same thing in tech. Only the healthiest orgs I been at have had women clustered around the median, most are at least a std deviation above the median.