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

Contributors

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?

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-137) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    Medical Collection
    WA950 2008W86k
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780520252226
  • 0520252225