Understanding risk: what do those headlines really mean?
Every day in the newspaper or on television we see stories about new medical findings. Perhaps we hear that a certain drug causes a 300% or threefold increase in strokes. That's a large increase. But, if only two strokes occur in every 10,000 people not taking the drug, a threefold increase really means six more strokes. Maybe that's not quite so frightening.
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