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To: MeeknMing
**They found that the chances of breast cancer would decrease from 6.3 percent to 6 percent, a 5 percent drop. **

fuzzy math?!

3 posted on 07/19/2002 8:20:47 AM PDT by homeschool mama
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To: homeschool mama
No, .3% is 5% of 6%. Got that? LOL!

The advice in this article will be ignored. It is far too inconvenient to the Gramscian types.

5 posted on 07/19/2002 8:23:51 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves
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To: homeschool mama
No, it's actually very precise math. 6.3 to 6.0 is a drop of .3, which is 4.76% of 6.3. Now that you understand this, you can teach it to your homeschooled children, to help immunize them against the epidemic of sensational reporting of statistics.
6 posted on 07/19/2002 8:25:25 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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To: homeschool mama
**They found that the chances of breast cancer would decrease from 6.3 percent to 6 percent, a 5 percent drop. **

fuzzy math?!


Not really. 0.3 is exactly 5% of 6 but 4.76% of 6.3. If you round up to the next percent, the latter is 5%.
8 posted on 07/19/2002 8:27:20 AM PDT by aruanan
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To: homeschool mama
**They found that the chances of breast cancer would decrease from 6.3 percent to 6 percent, a 5 percent drop. **

fuzzy math?!

Hi, hsmama! The fuzz clears up if they're calculating the drop from 6.3% down to 6.0%, 0.3%, as 5 percent of the starting 6.3%. More or less.

12 posted on 07/19/2002 8:36:21 AM PDT by nepdap
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