[jostmey]

How did they determine vaping is 95% less harmful than smoking? I don't see references to the methods they used to make this assessment. Where did that number come from? As far as I can tell, the number was just made up!

[gammateam]

Here is Dr Rosemary’s twitter, she was quoted, you can ask her

https://twitter.com/DrRosemaryL

[jostmey]

No, Dr Rosemary is not quoted in the article as coming up with the number 95%. That number is mentioned before she is quoted or her name is used

[manicdee]

Call me when multiple longitudinal studies independently verify that opinion.

[gammateam]

Ah ok

She mentione that it is much less harmful

Still not quantified with a source, maybe she knows one

[meikos]

You do know the number 95% comes very frequently from statistical analysis right?

[JeremyBanks]

You know putting "right" at the end turns your comment from helpful to dickish, right?

[sathackr]

It comes up at least 95% of the time when discussing statistical analysis.

[myopicgoat]

You may be referring to p-values, and the arbitrary 0.05 threshold but in that case, the connection is risky at best and wrong in general (common misinterpretation of p-value as probability of alternative being false)