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# Know Your Chances: Understanding Health Statistics

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Read This Book Before You Get Excited Over Health Statistics
  

*by S***E on Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2016*

I bought this book to help me understand the statistics that I'm constantly seeing in CDC, WHO and FDA public announcements. This important to know for my work as a journalist in reporting medical issues. But as I read over this book, which now has well-worn pages, I've been thinking that the general public needs to read this book too. For example, at the very beginning of the book, the three authors--who are also medical doctors--explain in lay language what "risk" is, what "outcome" really means when you see it, and why it's important to understand the real numbers behind the "statistics" that various organizations throw at you. In the writers' words, "the health messages you encounter every day in the media are often misleading and overstated." And that is so true I just want to shout it. But I also want to shout that even though it's the media that get blamed for being misleading, the real truth is that more often, it's the SOURCE of the information that has been fed to the media that is skewing the presentation of the statistics. In other words, yes, it's true: the sources--be it a drug manufacturer, a lobby firm or the CDC, WHO, FDA and whoever that is releasing the numbers-- will overstate, understate or downright deliberately cloud the numbers. For that reason, I can't thank these authors enough for writing this book.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Vital Information That's Easy to Understand
  

*by J***Y on Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2013*

When you hear on the news that something will double your risk of getting some disease, do you ever wonder, "Double it from what to what?"  It does make a difference.  If it doubles the risk from one in a thousand to two in a thousand, you might think, "So what?"  If it doubles it from one in three to two in three, you might have a different reaction.  Or maybe you would be fatalistic and figure you'd probably get the disease, anyway.  But either way, the numbers do matter, and you rarely get them.  This outstanding book explains why you need those numbers and why the health statistics provided in advertisements and press releases are generally misleading.  The authors explain how it is possible for BOTH survival rates AND death rates for a given illness to go up at the same time.  They also discuss why some studies should be viewed with suspicion, what questions patients need to ask before choosing a treatment, and the difference between surrogate outcomes, which simply deal with numbers like cholesterol levels, and patient outcomes, which deal with how a person actually feels.  The book is written in a simple, straightforward style that can be easily understood by readers without medical degrees, and its 142-page length will not overwhelm anyone.  I can't think of anyone who would not benefit from reading this book.  It won't take much time, and unlike some medical books, it's enjoyable as well as important.  This one should not be missed.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Depends on what you know going in...
  

*by G***K on Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2012*

I lecture to doctor colleagues on some of the topics in this book and they often need reminding of the concepts.  Yet the book is appropriate for almost any audience, assuming ten years or so of decent education.  I recommend this book for the 99+% of people who don't know this material but have to deal with stuff in these contexts all the time.And docs ought to know all this stuff cold instead of having to be reminded of what it means day-to-day.

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