Crunching numbers for fun and science

I think Internet health calculators are fun. Almost as much fun as magazine quizzes that purport to tell your personality by the shape of your used lipstick.

Here’s a calculator that figures your relative risk of having a heart attack vs. getting the human version of mad cow disease based on your hamburger consumption. The Mad Cow Calculator is on the Dr. Zebra web site.

 
 
 
 
 
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