4 ms·
it is probably not a math mistake since, when they applied the probability the 620 people is correct. Might be a typesetting (formatting) mistake. The 0.0002 i
by glofish 7y ago
it is probably not a math mistake since, when they applied the probability the 620 people is correct. Might be a typesetting (formatting) mistake. The 0.0002 is already a percent, but someone overlooked that and turned it again into percent.
Still it should definitely be corrected as the 2 out of 10,000 is a value that sticks in the mind.
- mennis16 7y agoThey also used the 2 in 10,000 figure when picking out the comparison syndromes. I believe Retts is ~1 in 10,000. It's definitely not 1 in a million.
- HourglassFR 7y agoMy guess is the editor somehow messed up the per thousand sign ‱ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis_point https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis_point edit: My bad. Correct character, incorrect description. It is indeed "ten thousand".
- laszlokorte 7y agoI once helped setting an article in tex (originally written in word) and made the mistake of not noticing that rich text 10^20 got converted to 1020 in plain text. We only noticed post print but nobody else seem to have stumbled on it even though it was at the core of the articles thesis.