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		avinium on May 31, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Too Many Medicines Simply Don’t Work Can you explain what you mean by "clinical significance"? Is it a case of "we're confident the treatment shrank the tumour by 10%, but the patient is still going to die in a week?"

tapland on June 1, 2019 [–]

He seems to be using small clinical differences over the population as a proxy to insinuate that the effects on the individual are small as well.

They aren't. The average might be small, but the range is wide.

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