> Dentists with shorter waiting times are more likely to propose unnecessary treatment.
I’m admittedly focusing on the narrow end, here, but this is intriguing. How large is the effect? I couldn’t access the full paper.
Intuitively, this would suggest that certain dentists are optimizing for low-effort, high-margin procedures. If that’s the case, I’d expect the distribution of wait times to be multimodal, which might offer a path to detecting such practices cheaply.
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> Dentists with shorter waiting times are more likely to propose unnecessary treatment.
I’m admittedly focusing on the narrow end, here, but this is intriguing. How large is the effect? I couldn’t access the full paper.
Intuitively, this would suggest that certain dentists are optimizing for low-effort, high-margin procedures. If that’s the case, I’d expect the distribution of wait times to be multimodal, which might offer a path to detecting such practices cheaply.