Suppose You Hear a Report That Says the Chances of Developing

Multiple Choice

Suppose you hear a report that says the chances of developing lung cancer increase by 10 times, just by living in the city versus the country.How do you interpret this?

A) You had better move to the country; 10 times is a huge difference.
B) You need to find out what the baseline risk is and what confounding variables were adjusted for before you can determine how serious this is for you.
C) You should just stay put; no one could possibly come up with a valid statistic that measures this.
D) You should ignore the results.Your increased risk should depend on whether or not your house contains radon gas, not on whether the house is in the city or the country.