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[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

your first sentence has nothing to do with what i said because those people already registered. the stat you want is people who are not donors dying in a way that we could've used their organs but didn't.

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

that would presumably also be <1%, wouldn't it?

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

i wouldn't make that kind of assumption about the behavior of the two groups

[-] jsomae@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

I would make this assumption in this case.

You think people who would opt-in register for organ donation would be less likely to die in a way compatible with kidney harvesting than others?

I think it's somewhat unlikely that whether or not someone registers to be an organ donor would affect how they are likely to die, but if it did, I would wager that registered organ donors are more likely to die in a way that enables their kidneys to be harvested than others. In any case, I doubt the difference is more than, say, a factor of 2.

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