alt Hacker NewsI’ve not only visited many doctors personally I was also part of a team working on a medical diagnostic instrument, the result of the instrument was a probability distribution function and it was impossible to explain this to the doctors who really would only accept a small number discrete classifications, which in effect throws out about half of the data we had worked so hard to collect.
Yes! good point, I have noticed this as well.
You reminded me about another idiosyncrasy: Doctors are addicted to double blind randomized control trials.
Which yes, those are powerful. But good evidence can come from many other study designs. Especially when mechanisms and first principles are being studied.