> it would be possible to discover long term causal effects that nowadays we don't know because running long term studies is hard,
Companies sell the data to ad companies, before any meaningful research can be done.
> it would be possible to discover long term causal effects that nowadays we don't know because running long term studies is hard,
Companies sell the data to ad companies, before any meaningful research can be done.
Fair, but I said "in an ideal world". Also, not sure if selling ads is more profitable to a product like a supplement because mining the digitized medical records showed that (example I pulled out of thin air) "constantly low potassium increases Alzheimer incidence by 50%" or similar.