I maintain that relative versus absolute risk is a concept that we absolutely must teach in intro stats.
I have given some examples of this before (murder! COVID!) but here is another one that hits home for my fellow Great Lakers. In particular, this one is for my friends in Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland, and Buffalo
Up here in Erie, a common point of discussion is how frozen Lake Erie is. Because once it freezes, the lake's moisture no longer feeds Dread Lake Effect Snow.
I like this example because you can easily perform the math in front of your class, demonstrating that 26.14% is 103.45% of 12.85%. At the same time, you have the visual to demonstrate that the vast majority of the lake was still unfrozen even with a 103.45% increase.
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