As per my understanding, they only took half of the problem where they took the numbers and compared against the gender of the surgeons
But if you think about it, if those likely to die or have complications after a surgery are complicated case of patients, it's not as if those people would magically be splitted evenly amongst male and female surgeons
As female surgeon are less frequent, complicated cases will likely be taken care of by a male surgeon, therefore this result.
Assuming no bias in the choice of the surgeon, each female surgeon will work on the same fraction of complicated cases as their male colleagues, and thus their success ratios are unaffected by the representation of female surgeons.
On the other hand, bias in the choice of the surgeon for complicated cases would indeed have the effect you describe.
If this article causes people to conclude that female surgeons are better than males, and thus causes people in the future to choose female surgeons, then the complicated cases will be over-represented and thus their success ratio will plummet
> accounting for patient, procedure, surgeon, anesthesiologist, and hospital characteristics
This suggests to me that they have accounted for that to at least some degree. (I can't read the paper itself so I don't know the details.) At the very least I don't think one can simply dismiss the findings out of hand citing "if you think about it."
On the other hand, as the study clearly describes, there are numerous factors in complication and outcome post-op; for example, the patient understanding their discharge instructions. If female surgeons are, on average, better at communicating those instructions, it will necessarily lead to less readmission and complication.
Instead of immediately looking for reasons why men are actually better in spite of the study and in spite of knowing little about the subject matter, it might behoove you to not simply assume that your trivial case wasn’t accounted for by people who understand their subject quite well, and read the rest with an open mind.
The price on the "secondary market" dropped below 90 cents on the dollar.
Circle before and after the SVB crisis (which happened during a friday night and through the weekend) continued to issue/redeem their tokens at par with the dollar.
It is market sentiment which temporarily devalued USDC.
You would have obtained exactly the same thing if US dollars held in SVB bank accounts were denominated in a virtual currency named "USD-SVB" and a 24/7 blockchain operating the transactions.
Before/After the crisis each USD-SVB would be reedemable for $1 but DURING the crisis I bet you my house those USD-SVB would have fallen like a rock on the dollar.
I know it's good to be anti-crypto on HN but please, try to not completely close your mind to the subject
Interestingly you can use the author's prompt and ask it to behave like a Ethereum RPC node. You can then instruct it to retrieve your balance or any erc20 balance, broadcast transactions, burn and mint tokens.. everything looks perfect and the block number even increase between attempts. The only part where it gets weird is when you ask to retrieve the price of WETH/USDC on uniswap. The commands and contract addresses are correct but the price returned is far from correct
Not talking about other more volatile crypto as you'd be tempted to assert their values should be 0 in a perfect world.
You can argue all day that's wasting energy, the crypto-ecosystem, chip manufacturers, miners, energy providers, users, developers, traders, bankers and companies driving billion of dollars of revenue (Aka value for human beings who will produce and consume goods in the real World with this revenue ) out of it are proving that you're missing the bigger picture.
I've never understood HN's concerns with crypto.
Following the same logic, people are literally burning petrol in their cars while it could be used for <insert supposedly better use case>
Is it for ecological reasons ?
You're still moving 2 tons of metal everywhere you go, and eating meat.
Cryptos are not less moral or valuable than plenty of things you do or cherish. Let people mine crypto, eat meat at Wendy's driving their F150, because the world is not black and white.
But if you think about it, if those likely to die or have complications after a surgery are complicated case of patients, it's not as if those people would magically be splitted evenly amongst male and female surgeons
As female surgeon are less frequent, complicated cases will likely be taken care of by a male surgeon, therefore this result.