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RomeoStevens comments on Open thread, February 15-28, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: RomeoStevens 16 February 2013 07:04:31AM *  14 points [-]

but the odds of you having at least one of them are pretty good.

The odds of you having any particular disease is not independent of your odds of having other diseases.

Comment author: Randy_M 18 February 2013 04:25:03PM 0 points [-]

Also it depends on how much less than 1% the incidences are.