Suppose Within a Short Span of Time, People in a Certain

question 6

Multiple Choice

Suppose within a short span of time, people in a certain town realize that there is an unusually high rate of leukemia among children in their town.Suppose someone calculated the odds of having that many cases in such a short time to be 1 in 15,000.Which of the following immediate conclusions would not be correct?

• A)Since the chance is only 1 out of 15,000, something in this town has to be causing our children to get sick.We need to take immediate action.
• B)We should expect this phenomenon to happen in about 1 out of every 15,000 towns similar to this one, just by chance.There is no cause for alarm just yet.
• C)It would be unusual if we did not occasionally see clusters of disease such as this one; this town may just be unlucky.Let's wait until more data is collected.
• D)We should keep an eye on the situation but there is no reason to panic.This could very well be just a coincidence.

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