{"id":975,"date":"2009-07-28T01:30:56","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T00:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=975"},"modified":"2009-07-30T11:42:20","modified_gmt":"2009-07-30T10:42:20","slug":"false-alarms-and-terrorist-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"False alarms and terrorist screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USING GRAPHICAL DISPLAYS TO COMMUNICATE TERRORISM RISKS<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-980  aligncenter\" title=\"goFigure\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/goFigure.png\" alt=\"goFigure\" width=\"473\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/goFigure.png 473w, https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/goFigure-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Jon Baron sent over this timely article\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/8153539.stm\">http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/8153539.stm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/8153539.stm\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like the way the author suggests visual representations (as above) to make the point.\u00a0That particular representation seems vaguely familiar. I wonder if the author knows there&#8217;s been quite a bit of research done on it.<\/p>\n<p>1) Sedlmeier, P., &amp; Gigerenzer, G. (2001). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apa.org\/journals\/releases\/xge1303380.pdf\">Teaching Bayesian reasoning in less than two hours<\/a>. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 130, 380\u2013400.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-976\" title=\"sedlmeier_gigerenzer2_JEP_Gen_2001_sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/sedlmeier_gigerenzer2_JEP_Gen_2001_sm.png\" alt=\"sedlmeier_gigerenzer2_JEP_Gen_2001_sm\" width=\"480\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/sedlmeier_gigerenzer2_JEP_Gen_2001_sm.png 480w, https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/sedlmeier_gigerenzer2_JEP_Gen_2001_sm-300x242.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>2) Galesic, M., Garcia-Retamero, R., &amp; Gigerenzer, G. (2009). <a href=\"http:\/\/psycnet.apa.org\/index.cfm?fa=search.displayRecord&amp;uid=2009-03297-009\">Using icon arrays to communicate medical risks to low-numeracy people<\/a>. Health Psychology, 28(2), 210-216.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-977\" title=\"Galesic_Garcia_Gigerenzer_HealthPsych_2009\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Galesic_Garcia_Gigerenzer_HealthPsych_2009.png\" alt=\"Galesic_Garcia_Gigerenzer_HealthPsych_2009\" width=\"460\" height=\"513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Galesic_Garcia_Gigerenzer_HealthPsych_2009.png 460w, https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Galesic_Garcia_Gigerenzer_HealthPsych_2009-269x300.png 269w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>3) This one just in via the comments:<br \/>\nHawley, S.T., Zikmund-Fisher, B., Ubel, P., Jancovic, A., Lucas, T., Fagerlin, A. (2008). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/18755566\">The impact of the format of graphical presentation on health-related knowledge and treatment choices<\/a>. Patient Education and Counseling, 73, 448-55.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-997\" title=\"sdarticle\" src=\"http:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/sdarticle.png\" alt=\"sdarticle\" width=\"450\" height=\"416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/sdarticle.png 450w, https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/sdarticle-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USING GRAPHICAL DISPLAYS TO COMMUNICATE TERRORISM RISKS Jon Baron sent over this timely article\u00a0http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/8153539.stm I like the way the author suggests visual representations (as above) to make the point.\u00a0That particular representation seems vaguely familiar. I wonder if the author knows there&#8217;s been quite a bit of research done on it. 1) Sedlmeier, P., &amp; Gigerenzer, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5,16,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-ideas","category-research-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4LKj-fJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":993,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decisionsciencenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}