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 -- mailto:judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html