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acover on March 25, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The illusion of evidence based medicine

Would estimating the prior help? Eg this study claims the sky is red and most people estimate that is wrong. Therefore this study is likely wrong and needs a lot of evidence to overcome the prior.

pfortuny on March 25, 2022 [–]

Yes but the thing is… papers are counted, not read. They are published to be counted, not read.

Really.

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