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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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I strongly suspect that the reason second-child home-births have the same complication rate as hospital births is that those who were most prone to complications (as demonstrated the first time) went to the hospital. This skews the result heavily... indeed, I'm surprised that home-birth for second children doesn't show a greater safety rate because of that bias.
Of course I haven't seen the study design or how they controlled for this so perhaps I'm being unfair.
-- Steve's not a stats genius in any case.
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Which means that the sensible thing to do is to have your first child in a hospital, and then make a decision about the second child based on the results of that experiment.
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