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Re:Five Nurses who work on the same floor at hospital have b... by tengbretson on Saturday April 05, 2025 @09:51PM (#43598322)
If you start with the assumption that brain cancer's occurrence is randomly distributed, then sure I guess.
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Re:Five Nurses who work on the same floor at hospital have b... by Retr0id on Saturday April 05, 2025 @09:57PM (#43598371)
If you assume it isn't randomly distributed, those odds only go up.
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Re:Five Nurses who work on the same floor at hospital have b... by mmooss on Saturday April 05, 2025 @10:49PM (#43598563)
Which odds go up, if you would clarify?
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Re:Five Nurses who work on the same floor at hospital have b... by Retr0id on Saturday April 05, 2025 @10:52PM (#43598579)
The odds "that some where several get cancer at the same time". (And by odds I mean probability, strictly speaking)
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Re:Five Nurses who work on the same floor at hospital have b... by throwaway290 on Sunday April 06, 2025 @02:15AM (#43599314)
nope. they go down for some people and up for other people. if these nurses are the second kind then that is interesting.
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Re:Five Nurses who work on the same floor at hospital have b... by surgical_fire on Sunday April 06, 2025 @06:20AM (#43600348)
The nurses did not have cancer. They had benign tumors.
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