Curiosities in a Table: Learning Points for Responsible Clinical Rating.

Abstract

This article presents a table containing redacted data from a real study. The table contains three curiosities: statistical significance in the absence of clinical significance, narrow standard deviations, and the absence of a placebo effect. The data in the table had been obtained by an inexperienced rater; how the inexperience compromised the data is explained. Action points for rater experience, rater training, and rating procedures are suggested.