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Help me make sense of sunburn statistics!

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Pessimist · 21/06/2025 19:02

One for the maths boffins - if the baseline risk of someone getting melanoma is 10%, and that goes up by 50% after 5 sunburns - does that mean the risk is 60% likely to get melanoma OR 15%?

(Having a bit of a health anxiety episode. I'm getting CBT for health anxiety and trying to do a re-framing exercise.)

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atoo · 21/06/2025 19:03

15%

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