PSYC 4030 Study Guide - Final Guide: Thalamus, Content Analysis, Precommitment
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Helping doctors and patients make sense of health statistics. The media most often reports the relative risk. Define positive predictive value. (p. 56: the positive predictive value is the ability to accurately predict the likelihood of a person having a disease based on a positive test. What is the overdiagnosis bias? (p. 57: affects the survival rate; accounts for screening results that show similar abnormalities to what a disease would cause, but those abnormalities may never progress into symptoms in the patient. : check to see whether the risk information is based on studies of people like you people of your age or sex, or people with health problems similar to yours. What are some of the potential harms of screening tests? (p. 58: costs, inconvenience and false alarms (the most dangerous of the three) Distinguish between false positive and false negative errors in screening tests. What seems to be a necessary precondition for minimal statistical literacy? (p. 61).
