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Newest Review: ... a percentage is quoted, say, then that number must be correct. But this is not always the case. For example an article I read ... more

 ... on a prominent news magazine concluded that traveling by plane is safer than traveling by car since less people die in plane accidents than in car accidents. What the article failed to mention is that the number of people that travel by car everyday worldwide is much larger than the number of plane passengers - this means that the percentage of people who die in plane accidents is actually larger than the percentage of car accident victims even though the raw data would indicate otherwise. This might be a tri...more

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Premium Review Issues and Concerns Surrounding Laser Eye Surgery: LASIK - the small print (491 words)
by sgrup - written on 04/03/01 (Useful, 1157 readings)
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I am quite surprised to see a considerable number of ops praising corrective eye surgery treatment. People considering laser eye surgery and reading these dooyoo ops might get a biased picture of the situation - but then they might be misled even by the 'official' data produced by the clinics who perform LASIK and PRK treatments. I will not go into the details of the LASIK surgery and why you should or shouldn't do it since I have already done so in detail in a previous op. This time I would like to speak about the dissipation of statistics and information on the treatment. Many people believe that statistics can't be wrong - and that whenever a ...

 
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