Reports on health, healthcare and adult education — and a calculator that turns the percentage in a health headline back into the number of people it describes. These are summaries of what was published. Nothing here is advice about your own health.
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Health headlines report the relative change and almost never the absolute one. Put in the baseline risk and the percentage a study reported, and this returns the two numbers that actually describe it: how many people in a thousand, and how many would have to be treated for one of them to benefit.
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