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My other post here questioned if medical students and residents should be doing serious research (i.e., expected to have an extensive record of research publications) vs doing research for pedagogical purposes. Here is an example supporting the “no” side. I’m not sure why anyone thought it would be a good idea to stalk medical students…

As someone trained in mathematics I tend to use words precisely, as I would in a mathematical proof. For example, the word “function” has a particular definition in mathematics that is related to but different from the common definition. Statistics has the same issue, where words that have careful mathematical definitions also have colloquial definitions….