A Reader in Clinical Decision Making , Cambridge University Press, pp. Joe Drish has pointed out that the numbers above are wrong. 0.096 should simply be 0.10, and 0.078 should be 0.0748. The article discusses some of the reactions of the physicians to even considering such problems. On such a basis one can't make a diagnosis.
Statistical information is one big lie.
I never inform my patients about statistical data. I would tell the patient that mammography is not so exact, and I would in any case perform a biopsy. Oh, what nonsense. I can't do it. You should test my daughter.