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A conversation between Nassim Nicholas Taleb and Stephen Wolfram (July 2, 2021) [Part 2]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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Do Doctors Overestimate the Probility of Common Diseases?

Young doctors tend to overestimate rare diseases. Old doctors tend to underestimate common diseases. I was a victim of that when i had cancer in my thirties, and wasn't smoking. But for them it's not tey rule out completely, forget about it. And so you have a tendency to kind of overestimateh the, the probility of common disease. Even o observed the same thing.

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