What you're missing by focusing on the average | Sharon Zicherman
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Rethinking Averages: The Importance of Context in Decision-Making
This chapter critically examines the use of averages in health-related decision-making, highlighting the importance of specific metrics and outliers. It emphasizes the need to question commonly accepted statistics to better understand individual outcomes in contexts like cardiac arrest and cancer diagnosis.
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