[FRIAM] Today's Sci Times re: a common expert error

2008-11-18 Thread Phil Henshaw
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/science/18tier.html?_r=1 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/science/18tier.html?_r=18dpc 8dpc about how doctors who showed no bias in their treatment of patients were described as making prejudiced life and death decisions by a widely accepted (quick)

Re: [FRIAM] The Black Swan

2008-11-18 Thread Phil Henshaw
It’s interesting how rare it is that one gets to directly address the ‘academic prejudices’ that people hold, like the little sparks one can see flying from Gardner’s list of characteristics of a “crank” and Falkenstein’s use of it. The list and it’s use neatly ignore that both rather neatly

[FRIAM] Physician survey

2008-11-18 Thread Carl Tollander
While you're on the subject of doctors and surveys, http://www.physiciansfoundations.org/news/news_show.htm?doc_id=728872 Checking out the Complete Survey Report Analysis link won't take up too much time, and as more companies enter the open enrollment season for health plans it's something