Tag Archives: absolute risk

Fail and Shameful Scaremongering

June 14, 2010 – 9:45 pm

Tweet From the Daily Mail: And another story aimed at scaring pregnant mothers: ‘Babies born at night in hospital ‘have higher risk of dying‘. Now, we looked at absolute risk and relative risk the other day, so this article is using the same scary trick: Pregnant women have been warned their delivery is nearly fifty [...]

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How the Daily Mail Manipulates Risks and Belittles Health and Safety

June 9, 2010 – 6:20 pm

Tweet An important disclaimer: I am not using real figures in the examples used in this post. Also, the maths is my own, so the examples may well be wrong, as might my shaky understanding of various risks. If so, please feel free to correct me in the comments. Yet more hilarity on the Daily [...]

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