One of my prior assumptions that I've now rejected as a result of the pandemic is that the average doctor has any understanding of statistics whatsoever.
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Replying to @khuey_
I was really happy with one of my prior primary care physicians because at one of my appointments with him he explained to me, very clearly, a very relevant statistical concept (which I likely would have asked about anyway, but he did it unprompted).

Apr 26, 2020 · 2:08 AM UTC

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Replying to @davidbaron @khuey_
I was taken off his patient rolls when he... became head of the internal medicine department at PAMF and reduced his patient count. I ended up moving to San Francisco shortly thereafter. sutterhealth.org/find-doctor… (and that photo was out of date in 2006!)
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The relevant statistical thing was that X (which I had) causes some large portion of the cases of Y (thing I didn't want), but that's not actually scary since X is common and Y is rare, so the % of people with X who get Y is still very small (despite high % of Y caused by X).