Jayson_Virissimo comments on List of underrated risks? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Jayson_Virissimo 31 May 2012 12:28:15PM 0 points [-]

I'm at 12.8% risk for venous thromboembolism and the average (for "men of European ethnicity") is 12.3%.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 31 May 2012 01:17:02PM 1 point [-]

Surely the difference is below the noise level of whatever data were used to get these figures? I make it about 0.16 millibits of Kullback-Leibler divergence, and upwards of 10,000 data points to have any chance of seeing the difference experimentally.