• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    1 month ago

    First 20 patients died until the surgeon learned how to do it, next 20 survived. Technically it’s 50% survival rate

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      1 month ago

      Depends on the sample size.

      If it’s just this guy doing it, then yeah.

      If it’s this guy who has done the procedure 20 times with 20 successes, and another doctor who sucks, who performed the procedure 20 times with 20 fatalities, that’s different.

      It’s likely that the sample size is much larger than one or two doctors.