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In medicine and biology, evidence IS based on percentages. That's why all these papers that present possible mechanisms with no numbers to back them up are conf
by l33tman 7y ago
In medicine and biology, evidence IS based on percentages. That's why all these papers that present possible mechanisms with no numbers to back them up are confusing people. You need thousands to hundreds of thousands of datapoints. This is not an exact engineering discipline (yet..) unfortunately.
- rscho 7y agoA minor counterpoint from a clinical researcher: in medicine and biology, evidence is mostly based on bullshit, not percentages.