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Old 11-09-2020, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Velvet View Post
This is how I understood the results: 4300 people in study so 2150 (half) got vaccine. 94 people got infected so .0218 or if you look at only the vaccinated .0437 i.e. less than 5%. If I had tried to present conclusions based on 5% results in my economics studies they would have laughed me out of the room.
43,000 not 4300. Numbers matter but not so much in economic studies.