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RE: Apples, Damn Apples and Statistics - Data Reading
Awesome article (your references are off the book). I've heard one of the hardest things about working in palliative care is telling a patient that you don't know how long they have to live. Doctors can give ballpark figures but with so many variables and a non-linear distribution of deaths giving a good estimate is just not feasable!
Each case is particular and giving someone the best information of their particular risk is always necessary, but the most important thing is that a lot of information is always lost in translation. The best one can hope for is that everyone learns as much as possible the language of nature.