RE: S.Korea Launches Probe Into Nuclear Accident -Reply

["Sandy Perle" <sandyfl@earthlink.net>]

> The fatal dose number usually represent a dose at which the does has a
> 50/50 chance of causing a fatality.  At least that what I use to calculate
> as the fatal dose limit.

While the above interpretation may be in use, what we are really 
defining is the LD-50 value. This is not the a value that defines 
fatality. It is a statistical evaluation. If I were an uninformed 
individual, and I was told that the fatal dose is x, I would then 
assume that when I received a dose of x value, that I WILL die. This 
is not correct, and is poor use of semantics.


Sandy Perle
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