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Re:Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants? by inter_netuser on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @08:22PM (#30926876)
50% of doctors are by definition below the average.

In reality, roughly 3-10% are good, the rest just go by standard guidelines only and/or punt you off to someone else.

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Re:Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants? by amirhirsch on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @08:30PM (#30926936)
50% are below the median.
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Re:Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants? by inter_netuser on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @12:21AM (#30928440)
Grades are normalized on a gaussian curve.

What's the difference between mean and median in a Gaussian distribution?

Looking forward to your contributions to mathematics.

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Re:Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants? by selcuka on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @12:41AM (#30928552)
> Grades are normalized on a gaussian curve.

Are we talking about grades? Honestly when I see "50% of doctors are below average" I intuitively think of some other metric, such as the correct/incorrect diagnosis ratio, or the number of people that died because of their errors. Maybe it's just me but their uni (?) grades never comes to my mind.

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Re:Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants? by inter_netuser on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:31PM (#30938763)
It alludes to the joke: "what do you call the last student from the worst medical school? A doctor"
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Re:Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants? by heavyset_go on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:03PM (#30927636)
Median is a type of average.
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Re:Ask HN: Beating depression with or without anti-depressants? by tsol on Wednesday April 06, 2022 @07:11AM (#30930736)
50% of everything is below the average.
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