wedrifid comments on 2014 Less Wrong Census/Survey - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 04 November 2014 03:43:02PM *  1 point [-]

I expect that doctors (of the medical kind) would agree as much or more than the average person.

I think that would depend on the context and on how the question is phrased. Professionally, doctors know quite well that race matters -- e.g. some blood tests have different acceptable ranges depending on your race, the prenatal testing of pregnant women depends on their ancestry, etc.

doctors (of the scientific kind

I think academia is much more politically correct than the medical profession.

Comment author: wedrifid 05 November 2014 02:04:49AM 0 points [-]

I think academia is much more politically correct than the medical profession.

You could be right. Now I'm more curious.