Real-Life Math
You are a partner of a large homeopathic treatment clinic. A lot of your patients are arthritis sufferers.
Through careful research, you've come up with many ways to treat this painful affliction, with fair results. But you're still not satisfied.
You've researched case studies and treatments. You know you can devise a treatment that would better relieve pain for people who suffer from arthritis. You've found a combination of plant extracts and minerals that could be the answer. All you need now is to prove it.
"Math is extremely important," says homeopath Dennis Gay. "We're dealing with studies and results, so math will figure into the controls and the final analyses. Two apples are better than 1 apple. We know that because of mathematics."
You have a group of 56 arthritis sufferers to document the effects of this treatment. In previous years, you have found that only about 52 percent of people with arthritis found homeopathic treatments effective. Your goal is to beat that.
Out of 56 people, 42 of them reported significant pain relief after 2 weeks of using the treatment. Five people reported moderate relief, and 9 people reported no significant relief. Given these results, what percentage of your patients found significant, moderate, or no relief with this treatment?