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Tai's Model for finding the area under a curve (1994) [pdf]

by rappatic on 4/29/24, 7:18 PM with 2 comments

• by rappatic on 4/29/24, 7:20 PM

  In 1994, a medical researcher presented an apparently novel method for approximating the area under a curve by summing the areas of small trapezoids underneath it, clearly never having taken elementary calculus. It wasn’t long before a follow up paper pointed out her mistake.

  https://diabetesjournals.org/care/article/17/10/1224/18808/T...

• by java-man on 4/29/24, 7:58 PM

  And 2 out of 6 references cite the same author.

  Somebody needs to study oher important questions, such as: do doctors need to learn math? Should test results display error bars?