Nils Reinton

"we find that attendance rates are particularly high in countries with more socioeconomic inequalities and fewer social welfare expenditure. This effect equally applies to both poor and rich people, which is in line with the idea that because of economic mobility and the possibility of unemployment in the (nearby) future also the more affluent population feels more insecure in countries with more inequalities and without a well-developed social welfare system." - Nils Reinton

""The symptoms of lactose intolerance vary greatly for each individual, and there are options in the dairy case that allow almost everyone to take advantage of the health benefits provided by the recommended three daily servings of dairy foods."" - Nils Reinton from Bookmarklet

Where did this come from I wonder ?: "Whether isolated human populations bearing DNA repair mutations, like BRCA1 and BRCA2, have inherent advantages over groups in which DNA sequences are more stable remains to be seen. The births of small numbers of exceptionally talented individuals may more than compensate for larger numbers of less functional persons." - Nils Reinton

If you didn't understand homeopathy before, you will now. - Nils Reinton

Fortunately someone fought that battle for me, before I joined the company. The concept of confidence intervals has made its way into the QA department, thank $deity. - Bill Hooker

That's actually part of the problem, being a clinical chemistry lab they are used to giving out quantitative results with confidence intervals - setting a cut-off that makes the lab-answer qualitative (POS/NEG) makes them uncomfortable. Nevertheless what you normally do in microbiology....and the sensible thing in my mind. - Nils Reinton