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Because, as surprising as it may seem, humans are still more intelligent than computers.
by yen223 12y ago
Because, as surprising as it may seem, humans are still more intelligent than computers.
- TeMPOraL 12y agoNot when it comes to actual reasoning. Humans really suck at evaluating relative probabilities of things.
- biomcgary 12y agoFurthermore, actual medical training greatly favors rote memorization and application of standard operating procedures. As a computational biologist, I spend a fair amount of time thinking about probabilities and medically related topics. Over the years, I have had several frustrating conversations with doctors who refuse to consider priors or stats from well respected meta-analyses (e.g. by Cochrane reviews). But, who can blame them? Doctors have little time to think in the current system.