Fortune cookie endings
You know how you read a fortune and add “…in bed” to the end of it? Feel like I should add “…in mice” to most big science headlines.
— Jordan Gaines Lewis (@GainesOnBrains) July 11, 2014
Or, often in NZ papers, “… in the UK”.
There’s a Herald story with the lead
More than 12,000 new cases of cancer every year can be attributed to the patient being overweight or obese, the biggest ever study of the links between body mass index and cancer has revealed.
Since there about about 20,000 new cases of cancer a year in NZ, that would be quite a lot. The story never actually comes out and says the 12,000 is for the UK, but it is, and if you read the whole thing it becomes fairly clear. It still seems the sort of context that a reader might find helpful.
Thomas Lumley (@tslumley) is Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Auckland. His research interests include semiparametric models, survey sampling, statistical computing, foundations of statistics, and whatever methodological problems his medical collaborators come up with. He also blogs at Biased and Inefficient See all posts by Thomas Lumley »