>If the breastfeeding initiation rates among middle-class
>well-educated white women go from 60% to 70%, this is only a 17% increase.
>But if the breastfeeding initiation rates among WIC clients go from 20% to
>30%, this is a whopping 50% increase in rates.  In reality, both groups have
>increased exactly the same.
>
>And if you had a group where 1% breastfed to begin with and you increased
>the breastfeeding rate to 5%, that would be a staggering increase calculated
>one way, but only half as much as the rate increases above.
I'm not an expert with statistics but I just don't understand the above
conclusions, could you please explain them to me, privately if need be
would be fine.  Thank you.
Ilene Fabisch, IBCLC, LLLL, WIC BF Co, WICBFNET listmom
Brockton, MA

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