Is it better to treat yourself if you get sick? Doctors seem dumb.
>When 261 Epidemiologists were told about an
intervention in which the rate of disease
recovery was higher of those taking Drug A
than for those taking Drug B, 79% of
epidemiologists denied that a person was
probably more likely to recover if assigned
drug A rather than drug B when the pvalue of
the difference between the recovery rates
exceeded .05.
(from The Secrets of the Cakes)
>When 261 Epidemiologists were told about an
intervention in which the rate of disease
recovery was higher of those taking Drug A
than for those taking Drug B, 79% of
epidemiologists denied that a person was
probably more likely to recover if assigned
drug A rather than drug B when the pvalue of
the difference between the recovery rates
exceeded .05.
(from The Secrets of the Cakes)
