This illustrates something doctors remain obstinately oblivious to: Statistics are applicable only to populations, not to individual members of populations, and so have no practical significance in medicine. A correlation that exists at the population level has no bearing on what is right for a particular patient.
seismic-2 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Now the probability that wearing a banana suit will lead to your death is 100%.
PraiseofFolly over 1 year ago
What slippery character. You’d think bullets would just slide off him.
ekw555 over 1 year ago
he seems to be confusing invulnerability with invincibility.
not that he has either.
but you can be soundly defeated and still survive.
and you can be victorious and still die.
prrdh over 1 year ago
This illustrates something doctors remain obstinately oblivious to: Statistics are applicable only to populations, not to individual members of populations, and so have no practical significance in medicine. A correlation that exists at the population level has no bearing on what is right for a particular patient.
Stephen Gilberg over 1 year ago
Is that what Lady Gaga was thinking?
davidbyronhopson over 1 year ago
Bayesian inference can be a problem.
TonysSon over 1 year ago
His wife loved him a bunch.