Timeline for Understanding Medical Testing
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| Oct 9, 2022 at 4:57 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness | [...continued] So "long enough" turned out to be decades longer than what everyone thought! | |
| Oct 9, 2022 at 4:57 | comment | added | Amazon Dies In Darkness | @cbeleitesunhappywithSX I just came across your interesting comment regarding the notion that if we're welling to wait long enough (e.g. by post-mortem autopsy...) [we will know the truth]. It reminds me of a "fact" long-accepted by scientists regarding a specific disease and the belief that it was correlated with a difference in size of a specific brain region. Long story short, it turned out scientists had been performing the measurements incorrectly, so all the "facts" that were believed for years (and the theories based thereof) were incorrect. [continued...] | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 22:52 | comment | added | Alexis | @cbeleitesunhappywithSX Looks like you have solved longstanding epistemological questions! ;) | |
| Jul 17, 2020 at 21:27 | comment | added | cbeleites | "You never actually know the truth." well, there are a number of scenarios where we can know the truth - if we're willing to wait long enough (e.g. by post-mortem autopsy, or by long-time follow-up). I.e., there is a difference between what we can know when measuring how well a test does (where we may wait) and between a diagnostic situation where we need to decide now what to do with the patient. | |
| Jul 16, 2020 at 22:28 | comment | added | gmatharu | Thank you this adds more clarity! | |
| Jul 15, 2020 at 17:18 | history | answered | Alexis | CC BY-SA 4.0 |