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Research showed that visual aids improved understanding of risk in medical decision-making.
Red dots signify patient deaths among the total number of patients in a hypothetical experiment. The visual at top shows the death rate among patients treated with an experimental drug as 15 percent. The image at bottom gives a visual of the death rate of patients undergoing a traditional treatment as 10 percent. Research shows that visual aids improve understanding of numerical concepts for medical decision-making.
Credit: NSF: Bradley Cooke
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