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The difference in colon cancer rates for bran muffin eaters and non–bran muffin eaters may be trivial; the finding of statistical significance means only that the observed effect, however tiny, is not likely to be a coincidence.
Naked Statistics
Charles Wheelan
Still, experts warn that unless we change the entire decision-making process behind these projects, a better model won’t accomplish anything. The models are typically not even run—and the results presented to the public—until after a state department of transportation has all but settled on a preferred project.
The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation
vice.com
As late as 1932, one mother in every 238 died in (or from) childbirth. (For purposes of comparison, today in Britain it is one in every 12,200; in the United States, it is one in every 6,000.)
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