Know your chances : understanding health statistics / Steven Woloshin, Lisa M. Schwartz, and H. Gilbert Welch.
- Woloshin, Steve
- Date:
- [2008]
- Books
About this work
Description
Every day we are bombarded by television ads, public service announcements, and media reports warning of dire risks to our health and offering solutions to help us lower those risks. But many of these messages are incomplete, misleading, or exaggerated, leaving the average person misinformed and confused.
Publication/Creation
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2008]
Physical description
142 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-137) and index.
Contents
Understanding risk -- Putting risk in perspective -- Risk charts : a way to get perspective -- Judging the benefit of a health intervention -- Not all benefits are equal : understand the outcome -- Consider the downsides -- Do the benefits outweight the downsides? -- Beware of exaggerated importance -- Beware of exaggerated certainty -- Who's behind the numbers?
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Where to find it
Location Status Medical CollectionWA950 2008W86kOpen shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780520252226
- 0520252225