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Talk:Mystery:Young Hollywood Breast Cancer Victims (view source)
Revision as of 03:26, May 21, 2008
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::: I've been able to research two of them from the list, but both were near 20 in age (too young to develop breast cancer), and it was not clear they do any touring that would compel a disclosure. Also, the two listed in the entry are not on the list above. I'd limit (and expand) the list to include signers age 21 or 22 through 29 who are (or were) touring singers. I'd be surprised if that list were 100, and astonished if it were as high as 200. Yet 2 announced having breast cancer (one of whom died from it), despite the rate in the general population in that group being only 1 in 2500.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 22:20, 20 May 2008 (EDT)
::: I've been able to research two of them from the list, but both were near 20 in age (too young to develop breast cancer), and it was not clear they do any touring that would compel a disclosure. Also, the two listed in the entry are not on the list above. I'd limit (and expand) the list to include signers age 21 or 22 through 29 who are (or were) touring singers. I'd be surprised if that list were 100, and astonished if it were as high as 200. Yet 2 announced having breast cancer (one of whom died from it), despite the rate in the general population in that group being only 1 in 2500.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 22:20, 20 May 2008 (EDT)
::::So we are getting at least some preliminary figures here, but it seems there's an issue. Of the breast cancer victims listed in this article the only 2 musicians who developed it in their 20's are Anastacia and Minnie Riperton, and both are out of our sample, which are limited to those ''currently'' in their 20's (born between 1978 and 1988). If we expand the group to include Anastacia, we'll need cover all performers going back to 1973, when she was born; if we include her we have to include her contemporaries as well, we can't hand-select ''only'' the positive cases or we'll get very skewed results. If we limit one group to performers currently in their 20's, but select the positives from anyone who has ever developed breast cancer at a young age, we're dealing with 2 completely different test groups here. Minnie Riperton was born in 1947. If we're going to include her in a study of those who developed cancer before 30, then we have to compare her to those of her era who did not get breast cancer in their 20's. Suddenly our sample size just exploded. If you limit your one group to specific performers in their 20's, you may well get a sample size of 50 people, but Anastacia and Riperton will not be in that group. There may well be others who are who do have breast cancer, but until we establish that they do, we don't have the figures yet to reach any conclusions. [[User:Cfred|Cfred]] 23:26, 20 May 2008 (EDT)
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