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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (760266)	12/30/2013 4:27:39 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575596

You don't think the organizations that did those studies and surveys are not experts? There experts but they aren't analyzing quality since that's too much work (not saying their lazy but if they had worked 24/7/365 they still wouldn't have enough hours, probably not if their where 100 or even 1000 times as many of them). They didn't go around watching a significant portion of the medical treatments that go on the dozen plus countries they put in their graphs. They took overall statistics about resources inputted in to health care, and health outcomes, and put those in their report, which is a different thing. Polls taken on many topic including political contests produce results that predict winners and losers to +-4% accuracy. In an opinion poll you either support this candidate or that candidate, or this position or that position. Its much simpler. Also the +-4% (or similar margin of errors reported in different polls) is not the only source of poling error. That 8% error possibility covers sampling error only, and only to a certain level of confidence usually 95%. Any bias in the poll would be another source of error and even if there is no non-sampling error there is still a 5% chance that the actual results are outside of the stated error range. When evaluating medical treatment, say a surgery you have a complex and probably at least slightly subjective analysis for each one, not just a simple preference. And even if such evaluation was easy (and it isn't) the point is that isn't what the people you linked to did.