Tips for understanding Absolute vs. Relative Risk

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Language/s: English

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Target Audience: Journalists and science writers

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Short Description:

Absolute Differences between the effects of two treatments matter more to most people than Relative Differences.

Key Concepts addressed:

• 2-13 効果の相対的な測定は誤解を招く可能性があります

Details

Radio commentator Paul Harvey had a feature called “The Rest of the Story.” Researchers, clinicians or journalists who report only on relative differences in making claims about a new idea should tell the rest of the story. It is absolute differences that probably matter most to most people trying to make sense out of such claims.

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