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Q: I never was particularly gifted with math and numbers. Do I really have to learn this stuff? Do I really need it in drug safety?

A: Yes, you really need it to interpret and make informed decisions. As electronic medical records become more widespread and large databases are used for epidemiology and observational safety studies, data mining, Bayesian analysis, and other statistical techniques, numerical literacy — as it is called — will be very useful and probably obligatory at some point.

¹See Jon Deeks, What is an Odds Ratio? (www.bandolier.org.uk/band25/b25-6.html).