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Policy analysts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta were told of the list of forbidden words at a meeting Thursday with senior CDC officials who oversee the budget, according to an analyst who took part in the 90-minute briefing. The forbidden words are "vulnerable," "entitlement," "diversity," "transgender," "fetus," "evidence-based" and "science-based."
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(Score: 0, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 17 2017, @09:34AM
Yeah, there is a heart drug approved only for black people. Never mind that this gets interesting with the whole liberal idea that you can self-identify as whatever race you like.
Basically, the drug company abused statistics. Lots of drugs fail, and this one did too... until they only counted the black people who were studied. It then squeaked by, just barely passing.
The problem is how the statistics are being used. Specify a p-value that you like, so that there is only a tiny chance that the results are false. Do a trial, get good results, and everything is fine... probably. Say you have your p-value set for only a 1-in-1000 chance of false results. Hey, pretty sure it is a good drug! Oh, wait, you tried 5000 drugs. You're getting false results almost certainly. Worse yet, the drug company just sliced and diced the data until they got a result they could sell. They tried every way of dividing up the data until they lucked out and managed to pass the statistical requirement for selling the drug.