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  2. Template:Death-date and age - Wikipedia

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    Note: The template may not calculate the age at death correctly if full dates (month, day, year) are not provided. For example, a person who was born in 1941 and died in 1993 could have been either 51 or 52 on the day of their death, depending on whether they had reached their birthday in their death year:

  3. List of fallacies - Wikipedia

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    For example, oxygen is necessary for fire. But one cannot assume that everywhere there is oxygen, there is fire. A condition X is sufficient for Y if X, by itself, is enough to bring about Y. For example, riding the bus is a sufficient mode of transportation to get to work.

  4. Template:Death date - Wikipedia

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    Example 2: Number: required: Day of death: 3: The day (number) in which the person died. Example 24: Number: required: Day first: df: When set to 'y' or 'yes', the date of death is output in a DMY format. Example y: String: optional: Month first: mf: When set to 'y' or 'yes', stresses that the default MDY date format is intended for the date of ...

  5. Misuse of statistics - Wikipedia

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    If, for example, a tobacco producer wishes to demonstrate that its products are safe, it can easily conduct a test with a small sample of smokers versus a small sample of non-smokers. It is unlikely that any of them will develop lung cancer (and even if they do, the difference between the groups has to be very big in order to reject H 0 ...

  6. Template:Death date and given age - Wikipedia

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    This template is used on approximately 3,500 pages and changes may be widely noticed. Test changes in the template's /sandbox or /testcases subpages, or in your own user subpage . Consider discussing changes on the talk page before implementing them.

  7. Literal and figurative language - Wikipedia

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    Uses of figurative language, or figures of speech, can take multiple forms, such as simile, metaphor, hyperbole, and many others. [12] Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature says that figurative language can be classified in five categories: resemblance or relationship, emphasis or understatement, figures of sound, verbal games, and errors.

  8. Sensationalism - Wikipedia

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    One example of sensationalism in science news was in 1998 when Andrew Wakefield published a study in The Lancet showing a link between MMR vaccines and autism [33] with it reaching the news media via press releases and a news conference [34] getting widespread coverage despite the publication being flawed and the article later being debunked ...

  9. Micromort - Wikipedia

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    A microprobability is a one-in-a million chance of some event; thus, a micromort is the microprobability of death. The micromort concept was introduced by Ronald A. Howard who pioneered the modern practice of decision analysis. [3] Micromorts for future activities can only be rough assessments, as specific circumstances will always have an impact.