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I need my doctor to have a basic understanding of statistics. I don't need them to have a profound knowledge of anything except their professional specialty.
by blaser-waffle 7y ago
I need my doctor to have a basic understanding of statistics. I don't need them to have a profound knowledge of anything except their professional specialty.
Chances are they took a basic Epidemiology class -- or a class that had it as a component -- and covered "Stat for medical workers." And that should be enough.
- tgflynn 7y agoI disagree. Accurate reasoning under uncertainty is highly non-trivial (as current events with covid-19 are making clear) and is I suspect one of the most important skills a clinician could have for making rational diagnoses and treatment decisions. Whether currently available statistics training is even adequate to the task of teaching this skill is a separate question, the answer to which is unclear to me.