Re:Blood test that finds 50 types of cancer is accurate enou...
by vidarh on Friday June 25, 2021 @04:14PM
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It's not that more data is bad.
It's that 1) sometimes collecting the data itself is harmful at scale. E.g. mammography can cause breast cancer, or cause it to spread. 2) the patients actions as a result of the data can, and does at sufficient scale, cause further harm.
It's that 1) sometimes collecting the data itself is harmful at scale. E.g. mammography can cause breast cancer, or cause it to spread. 2) the patients actions as a result of the data can, and does at sufficient scale, cause further harm.