Man saves wife’s sight by 3D printing her brain tumor

Re:Man saves wife’s sight by 3D printing her brain tumor by ashark on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @03:03PM (#8888658)

A lot of school administrators have PhDs, but get one to tell you how they learned about some really cool experimental results at some conference (probably publicized by someone trying to sell them something, incidentally, but that's another problem) and are trying to reproduce them at their school(s).

You'll be in for a treat.

A "treat".

Fun bonus anecdote:

One of my wife's principals was convinced the prayer jar she provided for the staff was effective because over half of the prayers the prior year had been answered. When she told me that story it damn near broke my brain.

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Re:Man saves wife’s sight by 3D printing her brain tumor by learc83 on Wednesday January 14, 2015 @10:43PM (#8890780)

>One of my wife's principals was convinced the prayer jar she provided for the staff was effective because over half of the prayers the prior year had been answered.

Depending on the prior probability of the prayers that were answered (and those that weren't), 51% could be plenty to support the efficacy of the prayer jar.

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Re:Man saves wife’s sight by 3D printing her brain tumor by ashark on Thursday January 15, 2015 @10:02AM (#8892771)

I know, the problem is that she was evidently entirely unaware that without knowing something about the probability of "answered prayers" absent the prayer jar, the simple "over half of all wishes came true" was entirely meaningless. Without more information any number could, potentially, support either conclusion (did/did-not work). This wasn't said in jest, either, if you're wondering (I did).

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