Would you ask a lawyer to do your heart transplant surgery? Would you ask an English professor to build a bridge? And yet almost every scientific study published in the world, particularly in the biological sciences, involves the collection, analysis and interpretation of data by non-statisticians, or by statisticians who are the principal investigator’s employees. Duh.
This same philosophy is at work at the EPA justifying further tightening of environmental regulations.
Does anyone care to guess how much this has infiltrated the FDA, DEA and law enforcement?
Of course it’s just “anecdotal” that folk diagnosed with “drug problems” come out of “rehab” with about eight or nine prescriptons.......