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    Framing Effects Entry #0503

    Why the same operation sounds safer with survival rates

    A ninety per cent survival rate and a ten per cent mortality rate are the same fact. One of them gets consent; the other gets a second opinion.

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    The hidden part #0503

    Equivalent facts, unequal reception. The frame does not change the odds; it changes which part of the odds the mind examines first.

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