Re: A question of statistical significance vs operational significance

[epirad@mchsi.com]

Maury,



Our direct observations 

http://www.cheec.uiowa.edu/misc/radon.html are in 

agreement with the BEIR VI 

(http://www.epa.gov/iaq/radon/beirvi1.html)projections 

which estimate that approximately 18,600 lung cancer 

deaths each year in the United States are associated 

with prolonged radon progeny exposure.



Bill Field 

> Bill,

> 

> Would you select an objective, reliable measure of the impact of

> cancer on human health, e.g., mortality, morbidity, longevity, etc. and

> tell me what that observation is today in perhaps the US, or the world,

> or Iowa, or whatever? Then, if we could suddenly cause all radon and its

> 

> progeny to disappear completely from the earth while all other

> conditions remain unchanged, what do you see in any hard data, or

> believe would be the observed effect or change in that selected cancer

> measurement in, say, 20 years or so?

> Cheers,

> Maury Siskel           maury@webtexas.com

> 

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> It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the

> freedom to demonstrate.                       Charles M. Province

> 

> 

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