{"id":5570,"date":"2011-02-10T04:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T08:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/index.php\/75-stat-misleading-newspaper-reports\/"},"modified":"2011-02-10T04:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T08:00:07","slug":"75-stat-misleading-newspaper-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.smarttan.com\/index.php\/75-stat-misleading-newspaper-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"75% Stat &#8216;Misleading&#8217; Newspaper Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a newspaper reporter bothers to explore the math behind dermatology&#8217;s biggest anti-tan slam, the numbers don&#8217;t add up.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5571\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" title=\"2011-02-10 one percent copy\" src=\"https:\/\/smarttan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/2011-02-10-one-percent-copy.jpg\" alt=\"2011-02-10 one percent copy\" width=\"285\" height=\"150\" \/>\u201cEven the IARC\u2019s strongest study \u2014 which followed more than 100,000 women over eight years \u2014 found that less than three-tenths of one percent who tanned frequently developed melanoma, while less than two-tenths of one percent who didn\u2019t tan developed melanoma. Almost all the other studies in the report did not establish a strong link between the two. The overall risk of contracting melanoma \u2014 whether using tanning beds or not \u2014 remains well under 1 percent. For that reason, using the 75 percent statistic is misleading, said Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz, general internist at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in VT and co-author of \u201cKnow Your Chances,\u201d a book on understanding health statistics,&#8221; The Wilmington-News Journal reported.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz told the News Journal, &#8220;Melanoma is pretty rare and almost all the time, the way to make it look scarier is to present the relative change, the 75 percent increase, rather than to point out that it is still really rare.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s not all of it though.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The IARC studies \u2014 once skin type I subjects are removed from the data (who cannot tan in North American tanning facilities, but sometimes do in home units or in medical devices that emit UV) \u2014 no longer show any difference between tanners and non-tanners.<\/li>\n<li>The IARC studies included home unit data and medical device data, which made up half of the subjects in the &#8220;75 percent&#8221; stat. Home units and medical devices made up most of the risk.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Why doesn\u2019t dermatology admit this confounding information when using the \u201c75 percent\u201d statistic? If they did, they\u2019d have no case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a newspaper reporter bothers to explore the math behind dermatology&#8217;s biggest anti-tan slam, the numbers don&#8217;t add up. \u201cEven the IARC\u2019s strongest study \u2014 which followed more than 100,000 women over eight years \u2014 found that less than three-tenths of one percent who tanned frequently developed melanoma, while less than two-tenths of one percent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>75% Stat &#039;Misleading&#039; Newspaper Reports - Smart Tan News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When a newspaper reporter bothers to explore the math behind dermatology&#039;s biggest anti-tan slam, the numbers don&#039;t add up. \u201cEven the IARC\u2019s strongest study \u2014 which followed more than 100,000 women over eight years \u2014 found that less than three-tenths of one percent who tanned frequently developed melanoma, while less than two-tenths of one percent who didn\u2019t tan developed melanoma. Almost all the other studies in the report did not establish a strong link between the two. The overall risk of contracting melanoma \u2014 whether using tanning beds or not \u2014 remains well under 1 percent. For that reason, using the 75 percent statistic is misleading, said Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz, general internist at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in VT and co-author of \u201cKnow Your Chances,\u201d a book on understanding health statistics,&quot; The Wilmington-News Journal reported. Schwartz told the News Journal, &quot;Melanoma is pretty rare and almost all the time, the way to make it look scarier is to present the relative change, the 75 percent increase, rather than to point out that it is still really rare.&quot; That&#039;s not all of it though.  The IARC studies \u2014 once skin type I subjects are removed from the data (who cannot tan in North American tanning facilities, but sometimes do in home units or in medical devices that emit UV) \u2014 no longer show any difference between tanners and non-tanners. The IARC studies included home unit data and medical device data, which made up half of the subjects in the &quot;75 percent&quot; stat. Home units and medical devices made up most of the risk. Why doesn\u2019t dermatology admit this confounding information when using the \u201c75 percent\u201d statistic? 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Almost all the other studies in the report did not establish a strong link between the two. The overall risk of contracting melanoma \u2014 whether using tanning beds or not \u2014 remains well under 1 percent. For that reason, using the 75 percent statistic is misleading, said Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz, general internist at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in VT and co-author of \u201cKnow Your Chances,\u201d a book on understanding health statistics,&quot; The Wilmington-News Journal reported. Schwartz told the News Journal, &quot;Melanoma is pretty rare and almost all the time, the way to make it look scarier is to present the relative change, the 75 percent increase, rather than to point out that it is still really rare.&quot; That&#039;s not all of it though.  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Almost all the other studies in the report did not establish a strong link between the two. The overall risk of contracting melanoma \u2014 whether using tanning beds or not \u2014 remains well under 1 percent. For that reason, using the 75 percent statistic is misleading, said Dr. Lisa M. Schwartz, general internist at Veterans Affairs Medical Center in VT and co-author of \u201cKnow Your Chances,\u201d a book on understanding health statistics,\" The Wilmington-News Journal reported. Schwartz told the News Journal, \"Melanoma is pretty rare and almost all the time, the way to make it look scarier is to present the relative change, the 75 percent increase, rather than to point out that it is still really rare.\" That's not all of it though. The IARC studies \u2014 once skin type I subjects are removed from the data (who cannot tan in North American tanning facilities, but sometimes do in home units or in medical devices that emit UV) \u2014 no longer show any difference between tanners and non-tanners. The IARC studies included home unit data and medical device data, which made up half of the subjects in the \"75 percent\" stat. Home units and medical devices made up most of the risk. Why doesn\u2019t dermatology admit this confounding information when using the \u201c75 percent\u201d statistic? 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