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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
One of my partners (math geek) proved that getting on an airplane the morning of 9/11/01 was still safer % than our drives into work that morning.
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Ah, but check out the jump in your relative risk of dying in a fiery explosion the minute you step on the plane. Stats are so misused. I read some shit this morning where some asshole stated that children who eat french fries between ages 3 and 5 have a 27% greater risk of developing breast cancer as an adult. Of course, no specifics regarding the study (controls, number of people examined, other potential carcinogens the study subjects ate) were described. The jackass on NPR just spit out the blood curdling warning cry - “French Fries = Cancer Risk!” I want to do s study to determine whether the internet has made people more stupid than they were before. There’s an obvious inverse relationship between the quality and quantity of knowledge the Average American has in his head. Pack of fucking water cooler dilletantes.
