• LastYearsPumpkin@feddit.chEnglish
    14·
    1 year ago

    In the study, 1,000,000 patients were treated by a male surgeon, and 100,000 treated by a female surgeon.

    That’s quite the discrepancy. Doesn’t explain the results, but it does show that there were far more male surgeons than female. Which might mean that there is a selection bias somewhere in the process.

    Lots more to study.

    • Cypher@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      The sample sizes are good and although improving the sample size for female surgeons would be nice it isn’t likely to be statistically important.

      • julianwgs@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Having on one side the top 1,000,000 male surgeons and on the other side the top 100,000 female surgeons makes a difference, which is really hard to measure. Of course both are not the top surgeons, but it is just harder to find more of a kind. Imagine looking for 100,000,000 male surgeons, which is probably impossible given the education demographic in the US.