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Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by cko on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @01:56AM (#25830742)
It was indeed a fun read. As a pharmacist I had a similar 'idea' years ago and got two other pharmacists excited. We were sick of seeing prescribers not follow 'Evidence based medicine' and thought maybe something that took Cochrane Meta Analyses and UpToDate info in a nice interface would be amazing.

> I started babbling about network meta-analyses, statistical power, and p-values, but he cut me off.

> "Yeah okay that's great but nobody cares about this math crap. You need doctors."

So true. As an insider in healthcare I would probably have disregarded this for idealism.

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Re:I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea by hef19898 on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @11:12AM (#25834857)
It also sonds a lot like more than one tech / data scientist I met. Applying statistics and tch to a domain they have zero experience in. Kind of giving calculators to 1st grades and hope they know whether or not the results are correct.
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