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mare-of-night comments on Yet More "Stupid" Questions - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: mare-of-night 11 September 2013 08:58:37PM 0 points [-]

This is a really, really good point that I hadn't thought of. I remember hearing in an intro to psychology class that psychologists have a worse misdiagnosis rate (or rather, rate of diagnosis being changed later - not necessarily to the correct thing even then) than emergency rooms, but I hadn't thought of how that would affect research.