Question:
Regular surveys are taken of India to find out about the state of their health and wellbeing. A random sample of 2500 young adults from the age group 15–24 years gave the following results for obesity. Obese Not-Obese Total Male 222 983 1205 Female 285 1010 1295 Total 507 1993 2500
A newspaper uses the survey results in an article with the following introduction. Kiwi Girls More Obese than Boys. A recent survey of young adults aged 15 – 24 years shows that females are more than 20% more likely to be obese than their male counterparts.
Do you agree with the article’s introduction? Use the data from Table 1 to support your answer, showing full calculations.
Answer:
This is a relative risk problem. So I calculated the relative risk, which is 1.1946.
I have a problem with this, How do I calculate the percentage of this?
In the question, it says that 20% more likely, and in the answer sheet it says that " As this is not over 20% more, the article is not correct" Because it is 19%.
So my problem is how to get 19% from 1.1946?
Thanks.
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