medgeek

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   by medgeek 17y ago

   Most medical studies have a small sample size because it is difficult and often prohibitively expensive to do studies with large numbers of subjects. Small sample size increases the likelihood of spurious results. The other problem is that
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   by medgeek 17y ago

   The point is not that anyone would mistakenly believe that Digital Subscriber Line was the correct interpretation of DSL in that context. The point is that the nature of human cognition is such that Digital Subscriber Line is the term most
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   by medgeek 17y ago

   Microsoft is certainly not the only guilty party in this respect. Overuse of jargon and, more egregiously, failure to appropriately define all but the most universally well-known abbreviations at the point where the abbreviated form is fir