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PostPosted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 5:28 pm    Post subject: Should physician learn data mining? Reply with quote

Omar Calzadilla wrote in a recent KDnuggets Poll that
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All physicians (17 in my organization) are working with statistical, because they only know estadistica. I am changing that: the physicians need to learn statistical and Data Mining.
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My reply is that physicians need to know some basic statistics, but I don't think you should expect them to learn data mining and become experts in it. They want to be physicians, not data miners !

Would you expect data miners to become experts in medicine as good as physicians?
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