Simple tools for understanding risks: from innumeracy to insight

Gigerenzer, & Edwards. (2003). Simple tools for understanding risks: from innumeracy to insight: from innumeracy to insight. BMJ.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

2003

DOI

10.1136/bmj.327.7417.741

Link

https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.327.7417.741

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Domain-specific

• Statistical Literacy
  • Health literacy uses the structure when patients compare absolute and relative risk, natural frequencies, test accuracy, and treatment effects

    This sourceWorks through exactly these four tools of clinical risk communication — absolute versus relative risk reduction with number needed to treat, natural frequencies in place of conditional probabilities, positive predictive value in screening, and the framing of treatment benefits.

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