Probabilities and Odds: Teaching Prototype
2018
In this video, Professor Myriam Hunink emphasizes the importance of uncertainty in the context of decision making in clinical medicine and health policy. Using the example of a 55-year-old woman with exertional chest pain, she poses the question, what is the chance, or probability, that she has underlying coronary artery disease, and how does that relate to our decision making process?
Access the video. Probabilities and Odds: Teaching Prototype (~6 min)
Students learn that odds and probability are two different ways to describe the chance of an event occurring, and visualize the relationship between probability and odds. The quantitative language and underlying theory of probability will allow us to formally incorporate uncertainty in our decision making processes where the benefits and risks of different alternatives are identified, measured and valued.
This video is one of a series developed by Professor Myriam Hunink during an immersion residency at the Center for Health Decision Science (CHDS) Media Hub. The video series reflect experiments to augment brick and mortar teaching with multimedia materials that emphasize visualization of basic concepts.
Probabilities and Odds: Teaching Prototype
Source:
Probabilities and Odds: Teaching Prototype. Teaching Pack: Teaching Prototypes for Decision Analysis. Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2018. https://vimeo.com/236607945/2dd655433c55433c