Comment by coldtea
6 hours ago
When humans talk, they use generalizations (and don't need to annouce them). Here it means that most doctors don't care about that.
Follow that rule next time you read such a statement in a context that's not formal math.
> most
That is not even true. We are talking anecdotal evidence here.
Yes, humans have found that you don't need officially stamped statistics (and in many cases they're unreliable or "doctored" anyway), and that they can make general observations on their own, through something they call experience.
And a near universal experience with doctors for anybody paying attention is that.
One can reject it or accept it and improve upon it after checking its predictive power, or they can pause their thinking and wait for some authority to give them the official numbers on that.
> When humans talk, they use generalizations
All humans?
Sorry :)
Well, when humans talk, they use generalizations, which applies recursively to this statement :)
Though, on second thought: yes, all humans, and not merely as a generalization. 100% of humans do it.