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Re:No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with... by harryh on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @08:24AM (#22308569)
Weirdly, as ChrisRR points out, they get the total number of predicted blind + scizophrenic people in the US correct. So it almost looks like more of a typo than a math error.

But still.

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Re:No person who was born blind has ever been diagnosed with... by carlmr on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @08:32AM (#22308631)
It makes sense, because as a scientist you often only write it as e.g. 0.2% for the article, but 0.002 in your actual calculation.

Percentage calculations being off by 2 zeros I would say is one of the most common mistakes I saw in, e.g. statistics exams.

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