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by hello_computer 852 days ago
When the heart-strings aren't being tugged, most people aren't totally stupid, and can understand basic statistics and probability distributions well enough, but those things are never given freely to the public when it comes to oncology. I can get a bell curve on different brands of hard drives or fuel injectors easily enough, but on a costly intervention that leads to much "collateral damage", that information is all behind a paywall in literal Greek. This is not an "oopsie". This is intentional.