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The difference is 0.2%. Honestly thought the difference would be much higher. I'll need to read the actual paper to get whether they found this statistically si
by zmk5 3y ago
The difference is 0.2%. Honestly thought the difference would be much higher. I'll need to read the actual paper to get whether they found this statistically significant.
- tedunangst 3y agoCompared with other factors like day of admission. > Patients admitted on a Saturday and Sunday have a 10 per cent and 15 per cent higher risk of death than those admitted on a Wednesday.
- prepend 3y agoBut isn’t that because in weekend admits are rare and only done in serious situations where death is more likely?
- wisty 3y agoIt will be statisticaly significant but if there's any confounders at all it's a correlation but not necessarily causation.
- leereeves 3y agoThey know a lot of people only read the headline, so how difficult would it have been to add five characters to the headline: "Patients 0.2% ‘less likely to die’ if treated by a female doctor, study reveals" It's borderline dishonest not to.
- prvc 3y agoAlso worth considering publication bias: any result in the other direction will not get published.