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Re:Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of Covid-19 by dekhn on Monday February 07, 2022 @03:32PM (#30250632)
replying just to emphasize that relative risks always sound huge until you find out they're relative to a very small baseline.
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Re:Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of Covid-19 by robrorcroptrer on Monday February 07, 2022 @03:37PM (#30250693)
Sorry I genuinely do not understand what this means. Could it be explained in some other wording?
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Re:Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of Covid-19 by npinsker on Monday February 07, 2022 @03:45PM (#30250817)
This means that expressing changes in a tiny value relative to its baseline (e.g. "3x as likely") sounds more impactful than expressing the same changes in absolute terms (e.g. "from 0.01% to 0.03%").
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Re:Long-term cardiovascular outcomes of Covid-19 by mvcalder on Monday February 07, 2022 @04:08PM (#30251187)
I bought one lottery ticket. Then I went back and bought two more, now I have 3-times the chance to win $100 million!
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