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      02-14-2014, 03:48 PM   #95
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0.5% is the worst case number I calculated (back of the envelope, given the reported failures along with an estimate to account for those owners not present here on this forum).

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Originally Posted by swartzentruber View Post
Lets put it this way. Suppose someone told you that with statistical significance, we know that drinking increases your risk of dying from a particular disease from 1 in a million to 2 in a million -- a 100% increase in risk. Would you stop drinking? Probably not -- we are still talking pretty low probability of death. It doesn't in any way diminish alcohols value in this case as a powerful explanatory value, but it also doesn't put alcohol on the level of cyanide. Now lets suppose someone tells you that drinking increases your risk of dying from another disease from 1/10 to 1/8, a 25% increase in risk. Would you stop? Probably, I know I would (or at least cut back).
Excellent analogy.

This just is not the E46 M3 bearing case.
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