Im sorry for your quality of life problems but calling doctors bad at statistics and then giving anecdotal evidence as proof has to start ringing some logical bells right? You dont even have to take our word. Use an LLM as judge. Paste your comment into chatgpt and see what it says.

I didn't read their whole comment, but I worked in the Internal Research department of a medical school. I did their statistical studies and built software for analysis pipelines.

Doctors, at least 15 years ago, were definitely bad at statistics.

They were not required to take a statistics course at all. Most programs would require Algebra and Calculus as part of their science reqs.

Some would maybe take one basic research course, and they would then become obsessed with p values of 0.05.

They did not have a basic understanding of how to interpret research unless they were an auto didactic and went out of their way to improve. It's something my director (a doctor and software engineer), and the Dean complained about relentlessly.

> Paste your comment into chatgpt and see what it says.

Isn't one of the bigger problems with ChatGPT that it's much too supportive of whatever the human is talking about?

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