Author Topic: Statistics Fail  (Read 549 times)

tonycollinet

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Statistics Fail
« on: 04 February, 2011, 10:40:58 pm »
Master TC just came in and told me of an article on the tv about the breast cancer news ongoing at the moment.

Reports that 1 in 8 women will get breast cancer were dismissed as scaremongering - the talking head saying that most women are not at such high risk of developing it.

WTF - No you are right. 7 in 8 women are at no risk of developing it at all - the problem is - we don't know which 7!!!