[lit-ideas] Re: Calling all women and someone who understands statistics
- From: Judy Evans <judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 14:22:10 +0100
Thursday, October 6, 2005, 1:58:32 PM, JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx wrote:
Jac> Click here: CNN.com - Study: Vaccine blocks cervical cancer - Oct 6, 2005
Jac>
Jac> This looks like a put it on your calendar be first in line
Jac> thing for women. For anyone on this list who understands
Jac> statistics and studies like those mentioned here, I'm wondering
Jac> about the "100 % effective" based only 21 women out of 10,000
Jac> plus.
It's based on the zero, not the 21
Jac> That seems like such a small margin....to base something
Jac> on. But then I always hated the stats/probability section in
Jac> Math classes -- it all seemed so ......random.
Jac>
Jac> Julie Krueger
Jac> never really trusting numbers
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