SI
SI
discoversearch

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor.  We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community.  If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.
Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (97014)4/30/2003 8:33:42 PM
From: Jacob Snyder  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 281500
 
Yours is way, way too crude and simplistic an analysis. If the group of 220 exposed, was representative of the entire U.S. population (same ratio of genders, age, races, smokers, drinkers, and 200 other relevant variables), then you could expect the same ratio of cancers (in the same time periods). It takes an expert in statistics and medicine, to make the statement you made. And probably a 50-page report to back it up. It took me about 4 minutes via google, to find what I did. If you cared, (I don't, it's a trivial issue and OT), you could look for more data, rather than just dismissing it with an argument that would get you laughed at in an introductory statistics class.