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Not really, we can test a drug on a large population and determine it to be effective on 5% of all people. With no further info you know you have about a 5% cha
by teekert 5y ago
Not really, we can test a drug on a large population and determine it to be effective on 5% of all people. With no further info you know you have about a 5% chance of getting better. With more research we may determine that for people with a specific variant in their DNA the succes rate is 60%, so you can be part of two groups. We can keep making it better, maybe never 100% but very from “a gamble”.
Would you say that hopping on a plane is an experiment in testing if it will crash? When you know it very likely will not?
- Vrondi 5y agoYour plane analogy would only work if every passenger had a unique plane due to genetics, epigentics, etc.
- teekert 5y agoI’d say it’s more like we have a lot of similar genetics (the plane) and then some small differences (the seat you are in) but yeah the analogy is a stretch, “similar” is not really a quantitative term but I think you are assuming we are more different then we really are. But that also varies per parameter. For example there is a reason we test drugs on mice, because they are pretty similar to us (mammals), of course there are also differences.