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The simple fact is that mathematical problem solving is a rarely used skill for doctors and most professions which require extensive schooling. I'm confident th
by rando289 12y ago
The simple fact is that mathematical problem solving is a rarely used skill for doctors and most professions which require extensive schooling. I'm confident the doctor in this case would immediately test multiple times to rule out false positives, just because thats what the medical literature on this rare disease says to do. And if he didn't, it would be a mistake, which happens a lot in medicine, but it doesn't have much to do with doctors ability to solve math problems.
- archgoon 12y ago> test multiple times to rule out false positives Would that do any good though? Are failures correlated in the case of the Alzheimer's test? What causes the test to fail? If it's truly random, then yes, you can retry; but that presupposes that trials are independent of each other; and I'm be surprised if that were in fact the case.