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To: mauser96 who wrote (33865)	7/1/1999 9:05:00 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 152472

Tumour counting Lucius, I saw that report about counting tumours in right and left-handed people and immediately discounted it as trash - the one where they counted tumours in right and left-handed people. They presumed right-handed people use their right hand and ear. Not so. I'm right-handed and use my left hand to hold a phone to my left ear, with perhaps one call in a thousand on my right ear. Therefore, either I'm a statistical aberration and they know it, or they have got their ideas wrong about right-handed people having right dominant hearing. They should have asked the people which ear they use, or watched them use it, rather than check right-handedness. I didn't see the actual study itself, just the report, so maybe the study was badly reported. But I assume not. Statistics are perfectly fine. It's what the statistics measure that matters. Usually they measure the inacccuracy and false ideas of the statistics measurer and quoter more than the thing claimed to be measured. Especially when reported in newspapers. Mqurice