What's the equivalent to "in mice" for a story based on a so-so observational study?https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/10/health/sugary-drinks-cancer-risk-study-intl/index.html?fbclid=IwAR1TKeXjL-AbbUmettNCPJmYrSIm-9saHESc1_Y_tYWu3QIfxSY6pbw8ZME …
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Not a fan of this because it treats the risk results as actually being real. Yeah, risk looks less "scary" in the context of absolute risk, but real problem is that the 1% absolute risk (and whatever relative risk), probably isn't actually true
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I think the translation of relative and absolute risk is a good first step, but yeh would be great to have many science communication accounts out there communicating uncertainty
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