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September 25, 2009

It always seems worse than you think

Filed under: Psychology Articles — Tags: , , , , — admin @ 10:00 pm
There is a cliché in media stories where figures for a disease or condition are quoted followed by a statement that "the true figures may be higher". Sampling errors mean that initial figures are equally as likely to be under-estimates as over-estimates but we only ever seem to be told that the condition is under-detected.For example, this is from a recent (actually pretty good) New Scientist art

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