December 28, 2008 – William M. Briggs

(Ex-Army Captain) Kyle Smith gets his statistics right

Mull this one carefully. Say a mammogram is 90 percent accurate at spotting patients with breast cancer, and 93 percent accurate at spotting those without breast cancer. Breast cancer afflicts…

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