For moral reasons I would also want a clinic who reserves it’s right to take people’s freedom away to predict outcomes of it’s decisions.
There might be other reasons to see changes in the system as success. If suicide rates go down, that might be a sign that depression get’s treated better.
US numbers suggest 15–24 years olds are more likely to commit suicide while people over 55 are less likely to commit suicide.
That doesn’t suggest a much better system.
If you can point to other things besides suicide that caused by depression and the prevalence went down a lot, that might be a sign that our system is more effective.
I might also be convinced by an inside view account but it would have to be quite conclusive to overrule the biases inside the system for finding that patented drugs are more effective.
I wrote http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/oe0/predictionbased_medicine_pbm/ for specifying a formal way of how I want to be convinced that something is clinically more effective and better than an alternative.
For moral reasons I would also want a clinic who reserves it’s right to take people’s freedom away to predict outcomes of it’s decisions.
There might be other reasons to see changes in the system as success. If suicide rates go down, that might be a sign that depression get’s treated better.
US numbers suggest 15–24 years olds are more likely to commit suicide while people over 55 are less likely to commit suicide. That doesn’t suggest a much better system.
If you can point to other things besides suicide that caused by depression and the prevalence went down a lot, that might be a sign that our system is more effective.
I might also be convinced by an inside view account but it would have to be quite conclusive to overrule the biases inside the system for finding that patented drugs are more effective.