Another Statistics Blunder???

[Scott24x7]

All,
Just found this opening sentance in a statement from Reuters:

Workers who clocked more than 51 hours at the office each week were 29 percent more likely to have high blood pressure than those who worked 39 hours or less, a new study from California has found.

How can you jump/compare 51 to 39, with only a sinlge percentage???? This just feels wrong.



Best Regards,
Scott

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[SantaMufasa]

Lunatic,

Although many people may "gallop" off on tangents based upon results published by the "Gallup Organization", I'm sure that the founder of that research group, the late Dr. George Gallup, would have preferred the spelling that matches his name.

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA)
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