How to Read a Log Scale

Re:How to Read a Log Scale by emmelaich on Sunday August 30, 2020 @10:08PM (#24327865)

> like a MD

A doctor 'invented' calculus in 1994. You don't know whether to admire or regret - the lack of exposure to maths.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8137688/

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Re:How to Read a Log Scale by akovaski on Monday August 31, 2020 @12:25AM (#24328485)

To insert a bit of sanity: from a reply by the author, she indicates that she wasn't trying to introduce a novel concept with estimating an area using right trapezoids. I don't have access to the journal, so I can't read her entire comment.

https://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/17/10/1225.2

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Re:How to Read a Log Scale by NicolasGorden on Monday August 31, 2020 @12:00AM (#24328385)

My comment wasn't, 'doctors don't know math and I'm so smart', but rather the oposite. I was surprise was when I found a doctor who didn't have a firm grasp of basic principals of statistical analysis. And how through my life I've encountered a lot of high level professionals who far exceed me in success, confess to not understanding certain concepts I considered are objectively very basic.

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Re:How to Read a Log Scale by godelski on Sunday August 30, 2020 @10:39PM (#24328035)

Doesn't he even cite a calculus book?

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