- S J McNulty, consultant endocrinologist1,
- P Williams, consultant physician1
- 1St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust, Prescot L35 5DR, UK
- sid{at}doctors.org.uk
Baru calculates the odds of admitting four or more patients out of 56 with tuberculosis as up to 1 in 41 million and muses on taking this good luck to Vegas.1 The problem with retrospective data trawling is that it is subject to cognitive bias. Such biases include pareidolia (perceiving a significant pattern in vague and random stimuli) and …
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