People are angry that the performance of these systems that are being shoved down our throats are suboptimal, despite what the execs say. People don’t like to be lied to.

This is an interesting take and I’ve had similar thoughts. I don’t think our human brains organize data into spreadsheets with neat columns and rows. Perhaps we should emulate that. Our so-called unstructured databases actually have a lot of structure.

I was surprised how much more I knew about health policy compared to FACULTY when I was a professor in a department of surgery.

The future ain’t what it used to be

Yes can be built into the design and often related to a flawed research question or ambiguous estimand. I guess a better term is over/under *conditioning* on variables

Yea they’re distinct concepts in my my book, but perhaps related under the umbrella of issues with over or under adjusting for variables.

Very often especially in clinical epi settings.

Anything related to COVID policies*. The causal effect of COVID itself is apparent and doesn’t need data analysis.

Never heard of that terminology. I do not endorse it

When you say “flexible model” do you mean Poisson?

So what is their biggest challenge?