mhoyeI heard a confession from a friend the other day who's working on ML in health care who's leaving that field as soon as he can because as best as he and his team can measure, the most important thing ML analytics can bring to hospitals is the mathematical certainty they should have taken the money they spent on ML analytics and hired nurses instead.
Health Data Abacus@mhoye I recently saw a low 8 figure grant that did a study that found poor people in my city have trouble acquiring healthy food because they can't afford it. Which sounds like the kind of problem an eight figure grant could help with...
Cat Hicks@health_data_abacus @mhoye my biggest heartbreak working as a researcher in questions exactly like this was always that we all fully knew and wanted to start past the laws of gravity of social problems (eg, "kids need food sleep and safety") but so many of those situations were about trying to create the most indisputable evidence to argue with the worst people you've ever imagined who FULLY do not believe (insert whichever, "kids need food" etc)
LisPi@grimalkina @health_data_abacus @mhoye Do not believe or have profit to be had in not refusing to believe it?
The two are subtly different problems, and I think the latter is worse.