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> There's a big difference between perfection and "Statistical Literacy Among Doctors Now Lower Than Chance"[1]. I don't think their intentions are bad, but they are woefully incompetent at many basic things.

As it happens, the daily practice of medicine does not require interpretation of p-values. Indeed, medicine existed before the p-value.

The people who create studies that ultimately guide policy decisions are specialized (much like people who write GPU drivers are different from those who run inference)

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