yeah thats because people are retarded, just swap doctor guy for robot man as soon as they are unconscious ez
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Jaxson Hughes
Matthew Smith
Going through medical school has introduced me to a feeling of hopelessness I had never felt before in my life.
Everything you guys said is true. I'm like the only guy in my entire class who even likes statistics. I wouldn't say I'm good at it but I at least try to figure things out. My friends don't try. They don't want to see numbers ever again in their lives. In assignments and publications I'm known as the "graph guy", the only guy competent enough to operate Excel and make graphs out of datasets. It has seriously burned me out. I want nothing to do with these papers. I want nothing to do with people who I cannot even talk to in the same language; I literally have to explain what p value is every time. These are people who are capable of memorizing factoids for 8 hours straight every day and then regurgitating them on written exams. They cannot comprehend what p is. They do not know where the values in the graph are coming from. It seriously saps my energy.
I essentially wrote the entire methodology section of our work, and when I sought peer review thinking "if I'm wrong they will spot my mistakes" I got nothing back... It sat there unquestioned, like some kind of holy statistical algorithm through which our paper's results could somehow be reproduced (as if anyone is gonna do that!). To this day I don't know if I made a mistake because no one was willing to spend any brain cells on the matter of checking my work. I wish I could have a strict professor read that section and take a steaming dump on it right in front of me... At least then I could improve as a human being. Not in medical school.
No -- papers in medicine are about prestige and winning residency points. You're a better candidate if you've published papers; this simple incentive generates insane amounts of junk papers. It's a social thing; people get invited to have their names on papers
Psychiatry appears to be the specialty least threatened by technology. I like it actually.
Nathan Garcia
What the fuck is going on here?
Jose Taylor
I studied medicine and we did have a statistics course in second year, it wasn't much but it was definitely there. Also at my university hospital all the doctors that do research have at least a basic grasp of statistics. You need it to smell the most blatant bullshit and also to publish your own papers.
Nolan Nguyen
>A Mathematical Model for the Determination of Total Area Under [...] Curves
Oh god my sides... I downloaded the article fully expecting calculus stuff... Was not disappointed...
I'm actually very surprised a medic managed to somehow work this out (assuming he didn't just pretend to figure it out?). Numerical integration are two words my friends would run away from really fast. It sounds mathy enough to discourage people from even attempting to understand. Calculus is just "that stuff engineers study to engineer things, we're in biological sciences, safe from the numbers". These same people go on to hate awesome subjects like biochemistry and pharmacology
Christian Foster
math.uconn.edu
Author's comments on the matter. It's funny... Says she worked it out on her own, people within her circle started referring to it as "Tai's method" and getting upset at being unable to reference it so she published it. Not only that, she's interpolating linearly
Joshua Reyes
Math brainlet here, is this not a legit way to calculate? Pls explain.
Grayson Smith
It is a 300+ years old method of calculation.
John Miller
And the big question is how do you memorize all of this stuff.... how do you do it?
Parker Gomez
Was going to be a med-fag OP because of my asian parents, but decided to do engineering so I would actually be able to apply my math skills and not be a regurgitating factoid.