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

• Main Authors: Witteman, Holly O (Author), Zikmund-Fisher, Brian J (Author), Waters, Erika A (Author), Gavaruzzi, Teresa (Author), Fagerlin, Angela (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: JMIR Publications, 2011-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BackgroundOnline 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. ObjectiveThe objec...