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"I heard that it's harder to quit smoking than it is to stop doing heroine."
"What does that mean? So I started doing heroine...and he was wrong! I'm gonna die..."
this is old news.
back in like 01 there were ads for devices you put under your battery to deflect most of the harmful radiation.
glad im not a cell phone whore.
let us know when you take a statistics course, then you might be able to form a rough guess on the probablitiy of cell phone cancer correlation.
did you forget that not everyone in the world has a cell phone?
you need to compair a sample of people who have cell phones to people who have cell phones and develop brain cancer
you need to use 3 billion as your population size, not 6, as only 3 billion people use cell phones according to the article.
lets just use the 5 million to say that if cell phones kill just as many people as smoking does how dangerous would they be?
5,000,000/ 3,000,000,000 = .001 or .1% risk on global scale
a more practical *bullshit* statistic would look at the dangers of cell phones in America as that is where Most of us I live.
66% of americans own a cell phone
population of US = 301,139,947 * .66 = 198,752,365 cell phone owners in US
5 million is the death toll world wide so this number won't work becuase we're dealing with just the US population. The best i could find was smoking kills 440,000 in the US each year, what do you say we just use this as the number for cell phone usage -- that way if cell phones killed AT LEAST as many as smoking they'll kill 440,000
440,000 / 198,752,365 = .002 risk of cell phone death
440,000/45,300,000 = .009 risk of smoking death
in order for cell phones to be as dangerous as smoking they'd need to kill around 2 million people
the point of this is, you don't know statistics, and your math is WAY off.
I'm not trying to make a point with my statistics, i think that the numbers are too fuzzy for this to be anything other than bullshit. But if you want bullshit, i have provided.
