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Strategic numeracy : self-serving reasoning about health statistics
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This research shows that the same people who appear to have low numerical competence
when analyzing personally irrelevant health-related numerical information are
able to overcome their reasoning shortcomings and make better judgments when they
are shown equivalent information that is personally relevant, and when only a sophisticated
kind of reasoning enables them to interpret this information in a favorable way.
The fact that people can engage in poorer or more sophisticated numerical reasoning
depending on whether that reasoning produces favorable or unfavorable conclusions
has implications both for the concept of numeracy as an individual-difference variable
and for health communication.
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Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 37, 165-173. doi: 10.1080/01973533.2015.1018991
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Routledge