Saturday, April 19, 2014

How to Convince People Of Non-Obvious Things

Breast cancer screening is a serious subject that a lot of people have profound personal experiences with. It's also true that Bayes' theorem is often counterintuitive.

This article in the NEJM, Abolishing Mammography Screening Programs? A View from the Swiss Medical Board, makes the case for less mammogram screening. It includes this great graphic:

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