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: 25% of the respondents were confused by the question. Enough said. "Spontaneous abortion" is not the customary term for a miscarriage inside or outside the medical profession. Nurses wouldn't use the contrived term any more than a lay person would.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 19:17, 3 May 2007 (EDT)
: 25% of the respondents were confused by the question. Enough said. "Spontaneous abortion" is not the customary term for a miscarriage inside or outside the medical profession. Nurses wouldn't use the contrived term any more than a lay person would.--[[User:Aschlafly|Aschlafly]] 19:17, 3 May 2007 (EDT)
::Um, yes they would. Every health care professional I know uses the term "spontaneous abortion" when talking to others in their profession, just as I'm sure there is plenty of law jargon you use with other lawyers, but not with clients or non-law people. And yes, it is the customary term in the medical profession, otherwise, I'm sure the study would have used another term. <font color="FFD700">[[User:ColinR|ColinR]]</font><sup><font color="000000">[[User_talk:ColinR|talk]]</font></sup> 22:35, 3 May 2007 (EDT)
::Um, yes they would. Every health care professional I know uses the term "spontaneous abortion" when talking to others in their profession, just as I'm sure there is plenty of law jargon you use with other lawyers, but not with clients or non-law people. And yes, it is the customary term in the medical profession, otherwise, I'm sure the study would have used another term. <font color="FFD700">[[User:ColinR|ColinR]]</font><sup><font color="000000">[[User_talk:ColinR|talk]]</font></sup> 22:35, 3 May 2007 (EDT)
:It is not true to say that 25% 'were confused' by the question. It is not at all the same thing as a 25% non-response. You also omit to say that the authors of the study attempted to deal with the not unreasonable objections you raise to this. They re-analyzed the data after excluding women who didn't respond to either of the questions and found the same results, and found the same if they coded only some of those missing answers as non-abortions. On the linguistic issue you are absolutely wrong. 'Spontaneous abortion' is an accurate medical term, not a contrived one. Further up the page I gave you six dictionary references that showed it to be so. I realize this is a topic on which you have very strong opinions, but to allow those to blind you to something as simple as the use of a medical term in a medical journal by medical researchers working with medically-trained subjects is something you cannot get around.--[[User:Britinme|Britinme]] 23:27, 3 May 2007 (EDT)