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  • DSTGU@sopuli.xyztoFunny@sh.itjust.worksW Jesus
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    3 days ago

    This is the most unnecessary nerd comment I’ll ever make on this platform… but

    I believe the bell curve wouldn’t represent the expected distribution in this case. I m not entirely sure what would be the correct distribution but I suspect Chi^2 or poisson.



  • This is not a good quality article from the point of statistics.

    The main statistical claim is that OE fails 9% of the times on USMLE. If you want to form a reasonable conclusion from that you need to compare it to control. The control here would be the fail rate of an average doctor. Or to be frank maybe better control would be the fail rate of a bad doctor because if OE beats that then there is an arguement to be made that there are people who OE could help.

    Passing grade os USMLE Clinical Knowledge exam is 214/300 and mean score is 246. Idk the specific scoring but if it is scored the usual way then I believe this article is overly dramatic
















  • My hobby (speedcubing) is like that as well. If you ask any semi competent speedcuber you will hear something along the lines of “Get the newest RS3M (9$) and maybe some lube (4$)”. I love it for that.

    (Of course it s all a foot-in-the-door scam to get you hooked so you buy other events but shhh)