Know Your Chances

Know Your Chances
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Publisher : Univ of California Press
Total Pages : 154
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ISBN-10 : 9780520252226
ISBN-13 : 0520252225
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Book Synopsis Know Your Chances by : Steven Woloshin

Download or read book Know Your Chances written by Steven Woloshin and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-11-30 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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