You're Deciding Whether You Should Take a New Medication

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Multiple Choice

You're deciding whether you should take a new medication.One review tells you that the medication has a 5 percent risk of a serious side effect.Another review tells you that 95 percent of patients do not experience that side effect.What differs between these two reviews

• A) bounded rationality 
• B) the algorithm 
• C) representativeness 
• D) framing

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Definitions:

Stem-And-Leaf Display

A method of displaying quantative data to show its distribution, where each data point is split into a "stem" (the initial digit or digits) and a "leaf" (the last digit).

Timeplot

A graphical representation of how a variable changes over time, displaying data points connected by lines to show trends or patterns.

Annual Profits

The net earnings of a company over a one-year period after all expenses have been deducted from its total revenue.

Distribution

In statistics, the way in which values of a variable or a set of variables spread out across a data set or population.