alt Hacker NewsMedical professionals have a history of not necessarily having complete understanding of the maths they use in their work. Classic example of a nutritionist 'inventing' the trapezoid rule for calculating area under a curve, and then naming it after herself. And then many many other medical people unironically using said method and citing her.
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bbor • yesterday at 2:45 PM
A) these aren’t “medical people”, they’re neuroscientists and psychologists. Comparing them to a nutritionist seems especially cruel!
B) “some people have been wrong before” is not a reason to think you know better than the authors of an upcoming Nature article based on a few layperson-targeted paragraphs summarizing the paper from a very high level.
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> Medical professionals have a history of not necessarily having complete understanding of the maths
HN commenters have a far greater history of that.
Also, researchers trained for years and invested a long time on this work; the HN commenter probably invested a minuted or two.