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Page 3543 1 opinions, like the industrial hygiene and the Harvard 2 people you have talked about and all of that, comes 3 into play when you make your opinions? 4 A Yes. 5 Q Is ittrue you also use the biostatistics 6 that you learned about in school? 7 A There are some statistics involved, yes. 8 Q Now, withrespect to the four studies that 9 you were relying on here, am I correct that you 10 combined the relative risk of each one to calculate an 11 overall risk to garage mechanics? 12 A Yes, yes, just a weighted average. We give 13 more weight to the larger study and less weight to a 14 smaller study. 15 Q And that is based on your reading of the 16 four studies? 17 A Yes. 18 Q How many mesotheliomas were in the McDonald 19 study for garage mechanics? 20 A Either 11 or 12. 21 Q How many mesotheliomas were in the