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by Waterluvian 2574 days ago
Maybe you're right. We would have to measure first. Otherwise we are just doing another thing I hate witnessing: the nerds insisting to the non-nerds that they actually have a problem.

This reminds me of an opinion I heard about why not to do full body scans: you'll inevitably find diagnoses that don't actually matter but will affect the patient's quality of life just by being aware of and inevitably defined by their conditions.

Hmm. On reflection I think this is closely related: treat the patient not the problem.