To: Darkwolf377
” but this tragic event is very rare, affecting approximately one per 830,000 children with food allergy every year. The prevalence of peanut allergy is about 1percent — “
Must be ‘new math’....
I don’t see how the author derives that 1% number fro 1 in 830,000......
28 posted on
02/16/2009 10:48:48 AM PST by
Uncle Ike
(At some point, government has to be the next bubble to burst. (H/T Freeper This_far))
To: Uncle Ike
Wouldn’t 1% be something like 3 million? Weird.
31 posted on
02/16/2009 10:52:09 AM PST by
Darkwolf377
(Pro-Life Capitalist American Atheist and Free-Speech Junkie)
To: Uncle Ike
I think its tied in with the 500 million jobs we loose each month if we don’t pass porkulus. Pelosi’s estimates.
117 posted on
02/16/2009 12:51:01 PM PST by
festus
(Politics makes for strange bedfellows)
To: Uncle Ike
The "tragic event" is death from peanut allergies. So death in children from peanut allergy is 1/830,000 of 1% of the population. Pretty close to statistically zero...
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