PSYC 4030 : Final Study Guide
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Helping doctors and patients make sense of health statistics, what are the 3 main points in this monograph? (p. 54. Why? (p. 55: conditional probabilities include the sensitivity and false-positive rate, natural frequency transparent representation than can achieve the same in comparison to conditional probabilities, natural frequency is easier to understand (ten out of 1,000 rather than 1%) Name 3 problems with the quality of press coverage of health statistics. (p. 65: the have a huge influence. Journalist do not know how to interpret medical research: failing to report any numbers, framing numbers in a nontransparent way to attract readers failing to report important causations about study limitations. Impediments to informed consent and shared decision making. Blink: blink (gladwell, 2005) what was the finding of the iowa experiment? (p. 8-10, the experiment shows us that we us two different strategies to make sense of the situation.
