This book looks very useful, thanks. Gigerenzer's work is usually pretty
interesting. I also see our very own Ben Goldacre and David
Spiegelhalter in there. I found more info and sample chapters to
download at:
http://www.harding-center.com/publications/better-doctors-better-patients
Gigerenzer et al's work on doctors' understanding of statistics is quite
scary:
Gigerenzer, G., W. Gaissmaier, E. Kurz-Milcke, L. M. Schwartz, and
S. Woloshin (2007, November). Helping doctors and patients make sense of
health statistics. Psychological Science in the Public Interest 8 (2),
53-96.
In the USA, it is claimed there are huge numbers of false positive tests
for cancer (especially prostate) which result in doctors recommending
surgical intervention.
- Phillip
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 20:03 +0000, King T. wrote:
> You may want to consider the book/report Gerd Gigerenzer has recently produced with Muir Gray and others: www.amazon.co.uk/Better-Doctors-Patients-Decisions-Envisioning/dp/0262016036/
> If the issue is about ordinary people understanding some of the complexities, this is very engaged.
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