Going back to the gold
standard |
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Nipawin - August 5, 2000 - By: Mario deSantis | |
claim closure |
In the article "The system is not more worth than one person's rights(1)" I have been |
emphasizing the strong and skewed social role of our leadership. And today, I am | |
reflecting on how the mausoleum mentality of our leadership has influenced the | |
work of Dr. P. Cote in finding out the statistical association between claim closure | |
and health recovery for Dr. David Cassidy's study on no-fault insurance(2). | |
gold |
In his presentation to the Personal Injury Protection Plan (PIPP) Review Committee, |
Dr. Cote explains the scientific approach he used to determine the association | |
between claim closure and recovery(3). He states that this approach included a study | |
of Saskatchewan Government Insurance (SGI) claimants because | |
"Saskatchewan is a nice province. There's one million residents. |
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There's one insurance company." |
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Also, he states that | |
"the health status must be measured with accurate questions. |
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Asking someone in research are you better... is not useful... |
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So what I'd like to emphasize now is that what I'm presenting |
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is truly the story of the people who gave us data... Then the |
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data must be analyzed with gold standard methods." |
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there
is |
Dr. Cote's scientific approach to determine the association between claim closure and |
recovery has no common sense since it is ridiculous to measure the health status of | |
claimants with accurate questions when the same health status is not an absolute entity | |
and it is not necessarily supported with physical evidence; it is ridiculous to present the | |
story of the people who gave the data when these same people have been abused and | |
taken away their human rights; it is ridiculous to analyze the data with gold standard | |
methods, when there is no 'gold standard' either in today's knowledge economy(4)(5) or | |
in statistical research(6). | |
gave
him |
My concluding comment to Dr. Cote's presentation is that he has a mind set going |
back to the gold standard and it cannot be otherwise when you think that the nice | |
province of Saskatchewan gave him gold: over one million dollars to entertain this | |
research. | |
-------------------------Endnotes: | |
The system is not more worth than one person's rights, by Mario deSantis, July 27, 2000 | |
The Incredible Abuse of Saskatchewan No-Fault Insurance, by Mario deSantis, May 31, 2000 | |
Transcipts of DR. R. RUSSELL , DR. D. CASSIDY, and DR. P. COTE at the PIPP review hearings http://www.angelfire.com/nf/coalitionagainstnf/PIPP.htm | |
An excerpt from Intellectual Capital, by Thomas Stewart, Doubleday/Currency, March 1997, page 15: "Money has been changing from a standard unit of value--a fixed and limited asset, a substantial and absolute truth--into something ethereal, volatile, and electronic... Money is now an image" | |
The New Economy and reflections on the meeting of August 10/98 with Timothy (Tim) Shire, by Mario deSantis, August 16/98 | |
Famous quote by Albert Einstein "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted" | |
The picture with today's article show the true gold standard of a sunset as seen Thursday August 3rd East of Neepawa, Manitoba. |