For a bit of levity, here is Peter Hitchens being hilariously wrong about mathematics for the second time this year
It's called a relative risk, and while imperfect it is the most common way to sum up such a difference
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Technically it's an odds ratio rather than relative risk, but the principal is the same. What you are claiming is statistically nonsensicalpic.twitter.com/84Xp5fJWdE
I've see that ( where is the 0.3/2.1 % calculation ? ), and I'm claiming nothing other than the limited usefulness of the double % calculation in this situation, so in what sense is that nonsense ?
Because the numeric value of absolute risk is just as meaningless without the numeric context as the absolute risk. And honestly if you're going to argue statistics I'd suggest doing some basic reading on things like odds ratios
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