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To: RegulatorCountry

Apples and oranges.

Your odds of death 100% with no transplant

Your odds of cancer in your like 1 in 3

Odds of getting cancer from a transplant 1 in 2000

That’s insanely low.

Your odds of having a child with Down syndrome (1 in 700) is far more likely than that.. so by your reasoning no one should have children.

A .05% risk is insanely low.


27 posted on 09/17/2018 9:05:40 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: HamiltonJay

OK, your take on statistical probability is different from mine.

But, answer this: why did the author of this feel the need to disguise 1 in 2,000 as 5 in 10,000?

Because it looked better. This is marketing hype. Why is marketing hype necessary? Why the dishonesty?

That’s my problem, here. I’ve already said someone at death’s door is going to roll the dice on those odds, who wouldn’t.


28 posted on 09/17/2018 9:08:04 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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