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tengbretson
10 months ago
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Five Nurses who work on the same floor at hospital...
If you start with the assumption that brain cancer's occurrence is randomly distributed, then sure I guess.
Retr0id
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If you assume it isn't randomly distributed, those odds only go up.
mmooss
10 months ago
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Which odds go up, if you would clarify?
Retr0id
10 months ago
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The odds "that some where several get cancer at the same time". (And by odds I mean probability, strictly speaking)
throwaway290
10 months ago
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nope. they go down for some people and up for other people. if these nurses are the second kind then that is interesting.
surgical_fire
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The nurses did not have cancer. They had benign tumors.
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