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Think Clearly About Risk in Real Life

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Overview

You'll build practical skills for evaluating risk and critically assessing probability claims in health news, advertisements, and media — so you can tell when a claim is well-supported and when it's misleading.

Syllabus

  • Unit 1: Making Sense of Small Probabilities
    • Finding Expected Cases
    • Scaling Up to a Country
    • Translating Small Rates into Waiting Times
    • Deciding Whether a Risk Matters to You
  • Unit 2: Comparing Risks That Sound Bigger Than They Are
    • Identifying Between Absolute and Relative Risk
    • Finishing the Worked Risk Calculations
    • Finding Absolute Risk Reduction
    • Spotting the More Useful Risk Framing
    • Analyzing The Advertisement
  • Unit 3: Understanding Cumulative Risk
    • Answering How Much Risk Adds Up?
    • Calculating Cumulative Risk Percent
    • Comparing One-Time vs Repeated Risk
    • Evaluating Cumulative Risk
    • Advising on a Daily Habit
  • Unit 4: Evaluating Risk Claims in Real Life
    • Naming the Missing Piece
    • Reading Medical Test Counts
    • Applying the Evaluation Checklist
    • Catching Misleading Headlines in Practice
    • Breaking Down a Risk Claim

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