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[โ€“] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago (26 children)

Like... is it written to excite anxiety?

Getting a colorectal cancer probability in a lifetime is about 0.04, eating hotdog adds 8% to it or ~0.003. I like how precisely we can measure it using regular statistics, but what does it tell to a human being? To me it tells nothing about hotdogs

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Histeria clickbait makes money. Extra points if some kind of agenda can be pushed so more people share.

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