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vanviegen • today at 8:50 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

Assuming you're not a specialized doctor, you're in no position to interpret that information. The person doing the interpreting usually has incentives that are perfectly misaligned with yours. And even assuming no malice, medical professionals tend to overestimate the benefit and underestimate the risk of the procedures they specialize in. One would hope that doctors would be required to be great statisticians, but alas..


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cj • today at 2:30 PM

> Assuming you're not a specialized doctor, you're in no position to interpret that information.

Why?

That's like saying no one other than a mechanic should be allowed to look under the hood.