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Re: Radon Health Risks



In a message dated 1/22/02 7:24:03 PM Mountain Standard Time, Jack_Earley@RL.gov writes:


<<Precision is an indication of the uncertainty in the measurement -- e.g., the number of significant figures the measuring instrument reliably gives. >>

i.e., it can give you precisely the same wrong answer each time.


My point exactly!  As I wrote privately to Don Kosloff, this is the trouble with a lot of models.

Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
ruthweiner@aol.com