Question: Refer to News Story 10 in the Appendix and on the CD, "Churchgoers live longer, study finds." One of the statements in the news story is "women who attend religious services regularly are about 80 percent as likely to die as those not regularly attending." Discuss the extent to which each of the three "common ways the media misrepresent statistics about risk" from Section 12.3, listed as parts a-c, apply to this quote.
a. The baseline risk is missing.
b. The time period of the risk is not identified.
c. The reported risk is not necessarily your risk.