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by TaupeRanger 1957 days ago
That's not how this works. The only way to show an actual reduction in all cause mortality as the result of an intervention, treatment, or screening process is through a randomized controlled clinical trial. If none have been performed, you don't have evidence that lives have been saved. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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i think focusing entirely on one type of evidence is a little unimaginative. if these guys have data on doctors performing some task with and without their tool, they're in a good place to measure the difference. they can take that all the way to the bank, and to me that would contribute to what id call evidence.
Until they have to really show that it's working in day-to-day practice. Where it most likely won't, unfortunately.
Totally fair. It is a very, very hard field to make progress in. I would also take anything I say with a grain of salt, I'm not trying to convince you, just to bring an additional data point to the thought that these techniques aren't very useful or impactful.
Maybe the GP threw the wrong buzzword and meant AI instead of ML.