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>Statistics. Garbage in, garbage out.

The problem isn't the statistics, and it isn't the solution either. Its the diagnosis data.

How do you quantify if someone is depressed? How depressed are they? How do you compare two people depression? It is an incredibly nebulous disease.




That's part of "garbage in". Just because you can put a number on it does not mean the number is well scaled, validated or in any way meaningful.




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