That is So Random: A Frontier Psychiatrists Guest Post!
Putting the plural in the Frontier Psychiatrist(s).
The Frontier Psychiatrists is a daily health-themed newsletter. It has historically been written by one somewhat lonely psychiatrist—Owen Muir, M.D. It was always envisioned as more than just me. Today, I’m thrilled to welcome
(a pen name, but a real Ph.D.) to the Frontier. Alex is a reader and writer and sent me this riff on the role of randomness in biasing psychiatric thinking. I would love to hear from other off-angle thinkers and writers…because I love collaboration. Alex is from the UK, so fair warning— color might end up spelled with a U.Is Poisson Clumping contributing to bias in psychiatric care?
Humans have the remarkable ability to recognize patterns. Unfortunately, it comes with side effects. We sometimes not only identify patterns where none exist, but we also draw conclusions from them.
Take astrology, for instance. From the earth’s point of view, stars are randomly distributed in the space above us. Yet, that has not stopped humans from drawing crude stick-figure…
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