# Clinicians blaming evidence syntheses for research waste

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> [@Should one derive risk difference from the odds ratio?](https://discourse.datamethods.org/t/should-one-derive-risk-difference-from-the-odds-ratio/4403/112):
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> Clinicians should not be assumed to be in an analyst/modeling role.

No one is asking them to assume such a role nor are they implicitly in such a role because of their status as clinicians (regardless of what the clinician may believe about his/her research aptitude). **However** , there will be no sound clinical decision making if the clinician does not understand the basics of research methodology and that is why the EBM movement started - there are only two options:  
a) Train clinicians to use the medical literature and thus train them to the level (at least) where epidemiological and biostatistical results are clearly understood  
b) Hire a fortune-teller to sit in their clinics

Clearly, no one will endorse b)…

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