Podcast, Teaching Resource
2014
What the Odds Fail to Capture When a Health Crisis Hits
How well do we understand and act on probabilities that something will happen? A 30 …
How well do we understand and act on probabilities that something will happen? A 30 percent chance of this or an 80 percent chance of that? As it turns out, making decisions based on the odds can be an extremely difficult thing to do, even for people who study the science of how we make decisions. Brian Zikmund-Fisher teaches about risk and probability at the University of Michigan School of Public Health. Back in 1998, when he…
Chronic Disease/Risk
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Probability/Bayes
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Preferences/Values
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Decision Analysis
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Clinical Care
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Culture/Society
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Health/Medicine
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High School
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College
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Graduate
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Doctoral
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Professional
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Quantitative Literacy