My friend @ChrisHeery's tweet struck a chord a while back. Most intros to Bayesian stats use similar examples which implicitly assume doctors order tests using uninformative priors and no subjective information.
Maybe that's bad pedagogy?
...I've never been tested for Ebola.https://twitter.com/ChrisHeery/status/1048963583516631040 …
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Hey man, that’s my job! I take offense to someone ignoring such an important aspect of medical decision making. It’s as though the term differential diagnosis has never entered the author’s mind.
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The best way to know an example is poor is to use basic common sense. This example is clearly far from meeting that threshold.
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