I heard on the radio this morning the absurd claim that one in four women will die of breast cancer every 12 minutes.
Does that mean that all 4 will die in 48 minutes?
Exactly what I was wondering - what in the hell does that jumble of scare stats really mean?
Does that mean that all 4 will die in 48 minutes?
No, it means the half-life for a woman is about 29 min so after about 3 hours you have a 95% confidence interval they they all have decayed to a safe state. I'm trying to calculate the LD50 now.