Let’s say there were 10,000 people in the study. If 100 people in the control got cancer, does that mean there were 98 more people that got cancer in the experimental group?
If anyone is interested in context, the study I’m referencing is linked [here.](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4602739/#!po=1.28205)
I want to make sure I’m interpreting these results correctly because this seems very high, thank you!
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One weird trick that professors hate: read the methods and results. This is where the answer to your question lies. Read about relative risk vs. absolute risk. The difference between these terms is where 90% of flashy popsci headlines come from.
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