Being Alone As Bad As Smoking, Excessive Drinking

Can't speak for them because I simply don't know. The floss isn't so much for the 'junk' as it is for the abrasion in the gums and where the brush can't reach to break up the bacterial colonization. I suppose the WP would do that but I dunno. Maybe not so much?

My dentist recommended both.
 

SamSpade

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Admittedly, I'm not much of a stats person. When people start talking about things like likelihoods and sample sets and conditional probability and Bayes' Theorem and, God forbid, standard deviation, my ears start to hurt and my mind clouds over. But even I (think I) understand the basic concepts well enough that I feel obliged to ask: How the hell does one - anyone - manage to increase their likelihood of death by 30%?

Quantifying certain characteristics and extrapolating them to larger populations. Compare to average life expectancy for large population.

http://pps.sagepub.com/content/10/2/227.full

More like 26%. Really, not much different from stats that say subtract a year if you do this, add a year if you do that.
 
Quantifying certain characteristics and extrapolating them to larger populations. Compare to average life expectancy for large population.

http://pps.sagepub.com/content/10/2/227.full

More like 26%. Really, not much different from stats that say subtract a year if you do this, add a year if you do that.

Oh, I got what they could have been trying to say (i.e. some of the different things they could have meant). I actually went and read a little of that report myself.

I was just making fun of the silly thing they did say.
 
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