Today's Sci Times re: a common expert error

Posted by Phil Henshaw-2 on Nov 18, 2008; 5:44pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/The-Black-Swan-tp1505491p1515258.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/science/18tier.html?_r=1&8dpc  about how doctors who showed no bias in their treatment of patients were described as making prejudiced life and death decisions by a widely accepted (quick) statistical means of measuring bias on test, that … gave them no chance to think it through or actually make a choice…

 

Phil Henshaw  

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