Several articles last week focused on prognosis and how people with cancer approach life with the disease. How patients interpret information about prognosis varies widely, and it can make discussions about statistics very complicated and difficult. Hope in the context of cancer can be both very powerful and very dangerous. In this longread, Stephen Jay Gould, a well-known scholar in his time, confronts his own dismal prognosis and digs into the statistics to find a meaningful take on his situation.
"The Median Isn't the Message" by Stephen Jay Gould
Re-printed at the Cancer Guide, initially published in Discover Magazine, 1985
http://www.cancerguide.org/median_not_msg.html
Eric
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