Re:Man saves wife’s sight by 3D printing her brain tumor
by saurik on Thursday January 15, 2015 @05:15AM
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Why is "numbers per 10,000 people" meaningfully different than taking the percentage and multiplying it by 100?
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Re:Man saves wife’s sight by 3D printing her brain tumor
by DanBC on Thursday January 15, 2015 @06:33AM
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Doctors and patients do not know what you mean when you say "your risk has gone up 50%". When you say "in a group of ten thousand people we would expect 4 to experience this thing. But in a group of 10,000 people who eat peas we expect about 6 people to experience this thing".
Gerd Gigerenzer has a book explainin it better than I do.