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To: Kirkwood

If your risk for colon cancer is 1 in 300,000 (about a 3.3 in a million chance) a 35% increase amounts to a 4.5 in 1,000,000 chance. Hardly statistically significant...


18 posted on 06/20/2005 10:13:03 PM PDT by Charles H. (The_r0nin) (Still teaching... or a reasonable facsimile thereof...)
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To: Charles H. (The_r0nin)

You better read that again, because that isn't what it says. It looks like you're confusing incidence with likelihood.


22 posted on 06/20/2005 10:16:18 PM PDT by Kirkwood
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