Attributable risk percent

Attributable risk percent is a way to figure out how much an event is caused by a certain thing or action. Let's say you play with a toy and then you accidentally break it. Your mom might want to know how much of the toy breaking was because of your actions.

So let's pretend that 10 kids played with the same toy, and only you and another kid broke it. If we take away the other kid's actions, then we can figure out what would have happened if it was just you playing with the toy. Let's say that without the other kid, the toy would have only had a 5% chance of breaking. But with both you and the other kid playing, the toy had a 20% chance of breaking.

Now we can figure out your "attributable risk percent." This is the difference between the chance of the toy breaking with you AND the other kid playing (20%) and the chance of the toy breaking with just you playing (5%). So your attributable risk percent would be 15% (20% - 5%). This means that your actions made the toy 15% more likely to break than if you hadn't played with it.

This kind of math can be used to figure out how much certain actions or things might be contributing to a bigger problem. It helps us understand which factors are the most important when it comes to solving a problem or avoiding bad things from happening.