Clarity comments on Prediction is hard, especially of medicine - Less Wrong

47 Post author: gwern 23 December 2011 08:34PM

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Comment author: Clarity 16 November 2015 10:48:21PM 0 points [-]

Wow. Thank you.

So much interesting here. Metabolic MRI, wow! Brain MRI's can detect cysts, tumors, vasculitis, abcesses, hormonal disorders like pituitary problems or cushing syndrome according to . Whenever someone on the internet brings up brain MRI's, people spew the same shit they feel they're expected to spew - 'you don't know how MRI works, they can't diagnose anything yada yada'. It's just like how everyone says 'go see a doctor' when people ask for medical advice, and they get easy upvotes. I find it really funny. I doubt the people cynical about brain MRI's are neuroradiologists or anything, or psychiatric taxonomists critical of neuroimaging as a diangostic tool. I reckon they've just asked that question before, or something analogous, and internalised that 'it's not a done thing, now I should enforce that rule too'.