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Yeah but this article refers to a very specific subset of that larger group.

• hervature 5y ago
  You seem to be suggesting that informing people that working night time shifts is dangerous for them and thus should be compensated proportionally is not important. Again, the absolute number doesn't really matter, the person is significantly raising their chance of dying.
  • nickthemagicman 5y ago
    You're turning it into a moral issue instead of a measurable one... Loggers, oil and gas workers, roofers, police, and more, all have SIGNIFICANTLY higher chances of dying then the average person. They do their job everyday. The idea of 'significant' is subjective. Statistically, anything that is not random is significant. You need points of comparison. Significant in comparison to what? Do the night shift workers have higher chances than these groups and therefore should people be overly concerned? Is it about equal? I'm asking for accuracy instead of outrage from the news media so people can decide for themselves because statistics is easily massagable for the less knowledgable to create maximum outrage. That's all.
    • hervature 5y ago
      The paper lists all of those things. Confidence intervals, what the groups are, the baseline. In this case, the baseline are people with no sleep disorders. The whole purpose of this study was to elucidate that this is a serious problem for people with sleep disorders. In particular, people with Shift Work Sleep Disorder. This is a press release from a university with a link to the paper so you can discern this stuff yourself. What more transparency do you expect from them? Last time I checked University of Missouri wasn't part of the news media.