Probabilities (General)

by romansh , Saturday, April 19, 2014, 17:45 (3869 days ago) @ David Turell

You philosophize too much. The professor&apos;s test was a measurement of a protein enzyme in blood. There is no false positive. The mechanism of the test and its abililty to achieve an accurate result had been proven. -There is no false positive? How do we go about proving this. We can maybe say the rate of false positives is something like <0.000001, implying we have tasted a million people and not found a single false positive.-> Medicine is in the proof business &#13;&#10;and&#13;&#10;>I know medicine is an art with applied science, not a science in itself. Which I think yhou actually recognize. Mainly deductive reasoning.&#13;&#10;?????-Yes I know medicine has a degree of art to it. That is why I don&apos;t think medicine is in the proof business. It is in the business of making the best possible decision within the constraints of time, education, experience, resources, compassion and no doubt many other factors.-Proof is for logicians who have a well defined set of axioms and well defined method of using Boolean operators (and similar).