Your paternalistic & patronizing views about “normal people” belong to a very, very different era. A bygone era. Thankfully these views are fast disappearing.
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Some things are difficult to measure. I know I've used medical papers available on the internet many times. Has anyone polled me about this? No. A lack of evidence is not evidence against, either.
A a start would be to to track public use (citations) of medical literature, contrast the citations of OA sources with CA. If you know normal people, you know that they don't generally read papers. They read newspapers' coverage and science journalism sites.
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Yes, but there is a group in between "normal" people and "people with paid access to medical journals" that includes smart people who aren't doctors but have serious medical problems/children with serious medical problems.
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There is, but it is very small, and these people probably have access thru their network already. Remember how journal access worked before Scihub? I used to email authors for years, or burrow logins to university library. Most smart people can find a way like that.
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Just being explicit and not sarcastic: the parents of chronically ill children have enough shit on their plates to deal with every day without making them jump through *more* hoops to find medical information.
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