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Given that we're talking about an affliction that affects only 125 of the ~65 million people in the UK, 'incredibly unlikely' seems like a fair characterization
by melq 10y ago
Given that we're talking about an affliction that affects only 125 of the ~65 million people in the UK, 'incredibly unlikely' seems like a fair characterization. But even an incredibly unlikely event is going to nevertheless happen to to a few unlucky individuals when the sample size is this large, and I don't see how we have any reason to believe she is being dishonest or otherwise misrepresenting the facts.
- djsumdog 10y agoRight and in the article the doctors even felt like they caught it early. They gave her powerful medication and even surgical replacements. Her case just make have been incredibly invasive? The medication may have pushed the infection deeper into the eye or surrounding tissue, or it may have developed resistance.
- fastball 10y agoRight, but we don't really have a spread on which of those 125 was using their lenses "correctly" and which were "misusing" them. My point is that I'm betting those 125 are a subset of people that don't use their lenses according to best practices.