Hi Anoop
You might enjoy Margaret McCartney's book, The Patient Paradox: why
sexed up medicine is bad for your health
She has a brilliant put down of a testimonial used to promote
expensive and potentially harmful screening
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Patient-Paradox-Sexed-Medicine-Health/dp/1780660006/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1330422009&sr=8-1#reader_1780660006
Michael
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> Balachandran
> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 3:02 PM
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> Subject: Pitfalls of Anecdotal Evidence
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> Hi everyone,
>
> I was looking for a book or a paper which explains what is wrong with
> anecdotal evidence/unsystematic observations or why we need an evidence-
> based-approach.
>
> I am thinking of cognitive biases, problem of chance findings, statistical
> issues and such.
>
> Thanks
> Anoop
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