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Risk Estimates From an Online Risk Calculator Are More Believable and Recalled Better When Expressed as Integers

BACKGROUND: Online risk calculators offer different levels of precision in their risk estimates. People interpret numbers in varying ways depending on how they are presented, and we do not know how the number of decimal places displayed might influence perceptions of risk estimates. OBJECTIVE: The o...

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Autores principales: Witteman, Holly O, Zikmund-Fisher, Brian J, Waters, Erika A, Gavaruzzi, Teresa, Fagerlin, Angela
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Gunther Eysenbach 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3222170/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21908265
http://dx.doi.org/10.2196/jmir.1656