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This article offers several possibilities for use in the classroom. The graph does a good job of telling the story (except for the typo-"change" should be "chance"). The conditional statements on increased risk can be written, e.g.
Pr (accident for a woman|6-9 drinks over 6 hours)
= 13 x Pr (accident for a woman|no drinks)
Students might also like to debate the cause-effect links that could be claimed from this article.
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Index - Chance and Basic Probability
Index - Inference