Chuck, this is asinine in the extreme. CDC link is above. You couldn’t read it the first time, so I quoted the text. “more than 200,000 people are hospitalized from flu-related complications”. And “about 36,000 people die from flu-related causes.”
36000/200000 = 0.18.
Call me a liar if you like, but this is 4th grade math at best. The statistical argument, I’ll grant, is a little tougher: if you really insist, I’ll run through it, discussion what a “null hypothesis” is, and why with 20 cases we can’t assume anything statistically if there has been no death so far instead of 1 and 2/10ths.
You’re simply making a fool of yourself, apparently because you aren’t reading very well. Unless you really can’t manage to divige 38 into 200 and get 0.18.
You’re right, it was wrong of me to suggest, years ago, that a visit to the Colorado State Hospital might be in order. (Whatever they call it now.) I apologize. But after all the times you’ve been banned from as many sites as you’ve been banned, are you really getting what you want out of this kind of argument?
