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andrewducker) wrote2011-11-25 11:00 am
andrewducker) wrote2011-11-25 11:00 am
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Interesting Links for 25-11-2011
- IPv6 for consumers on DSL at last
- Apple is the UK's second most popular shopping site (after Amazon)
- Google and Samsung confirm Galaxy Nexus volume bugs - glad I'm not upgrading until January!
- Badoo - the billion pound social network you've never heard of (massive in Brazil, Spain, France...)
- Genetic Study Confirms: First Dogs Came from East Asia
- Britain has had a record-breaking freakishly warm autumn
- Courts cannot force ISPs into broad filtering and monitoring for copyright-infringing traffic, ECJ rules
- Offshore unit launched to tackle international tax avoidance
- UK switching cervical cancer vaccine to one which also protects against genital warts
- Seeing nude people tunes up the brain
- Some very interesting stats on home births, midwives, etc.
- Ethical bank Triodos opens its first UK branch (in Edinburgh)
- Organising movie posters by different tropes they use. Strangely hypnotic.
- It's nice to know that there's at least one class out there getting decent sex education
- Willpower Is more than a metaphor: Self-control relies on glucose as a limited energy source.
- Journalists tried to reach JK Rowling through her five-year-old daughter. Can we shoot them now?
- 50p tax rate not actually causing a massive problem.
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Now: if i lived in a 200 window building and I knew that a rogue police marksman was aiming at a random window and was going to shoot whoever opened it, would I open my window? Probably not. I'd find a less risky way of getting fresh air.
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In which case, what _are_ the odds of a situation occurring which gives different outcomes depending on whether you're at home or in the hospital?
Because I read a study earlier today that said the differences were statistically insignificant (for second child and onwards).
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Let's say risk of 'complication' from rogue police sniper is 1% in an apartment block 45 minutes from the hospital and a hospital block being terrorised by another rogue police sniper.
What the statistics of the study say is that, for people who have already been shot by a rogue police sniper once before ~45% of the unlucky 1% who get shot back at the apartment block end up have to go to hospital anyway (albeit mostly for flesh wounds). Critically, the statistics say that the risk of dying from being shot by a rogue police sniper the second time around is the same whether your at the apartment block (a 45 minute ambulance journey from the hospital) or at the hospital block (where all the surgeons are).
You know what? I'd still rather be shot by a rogue police sniper at the hospital block.
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