JoshuaZ comments on Dealing with the high quantity of scientific error in medicine - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 27 October 2010 02:31:51AM 3 points [-]

I'm not sure that this is at all meaningful because things like selection pressure and mutation rate also arguably matter. If one has a species with lots of generations but an incredibly low mutation rate it isn't going to adapt to an environment as much as another species in the same environment with a higher mutation rate.