Doctor Mike
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard 2 Sep
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Maybe you can help me brainstorm live on this.
So you're obviously very familiar with survivorship bias.
The classic example for the audience at home is
A World War II plane comes home.
Multiple of them come home.
They have bullets, holes across specific sections of their plane.
And people say, well, if that's the place the plane is most likely to get hit, we should put armor there.
And the actual survivorship bias would teach us the opposite.
Where they don't have bullet holes teaches us that that's where you put protection because otherwise they don't come home.
So it's like what you see is actually the opposite of what's happening.
So on social media,
We see basically an example of survivorship bias, the worst health outcomes where doctors don't spend enough time, patients are hurt.
You have parents that are like, the doctor didn't even examine my child properly to know if they have a mental health condition before prescribing SSRIs.
And then it creates this distorted view of what's happening in healthcare that is largely disconnected from your accurate, what I think is accurate view, that most doctors are doing the right thing.
Because if you look at social media, it looks the exact opposite, but that's because
patients who are getting good care are not on social media talking about
social media distortion bias or something, but it's terrible.
good term
algorithm bias.
But I want it to be better and
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