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Cancer and “Bad Luck”: Risk Perception, Decision Making, and Risk‐Reducing Behavior
Author(s) -
Morgan Kara,
Peters Ellen
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
risk analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.972
H-Index - 130
eISSN - 1539-6924
pISSN - 0272-4332
DOI - 10.1111/risa.12411
Subject(s) - luck , analytics , citation , psychology , library science , computer science , data science , epistemology , philosophy
If success of a scientific study is measured by how much conversation it triggers, then the article “Variation in Cancer Risk Among Tissues Can Be Explained by the Number of Stem Cell Divisions” has been very successful.(1) Unfortunately, the ensuing public discussion demonstrates how flawed communications can turn potentially valuable research into a public health failure. In addition to raising important discussion points about the study’s methodology and the language of its press release, observers have noted three intertwined messages highlighted by media accounts of the study:(2)