More physicians choose surgery over an alternative treatment when surgery is described as having a one-month survival rate of 90% than when surgery is described as having a one-month mortality rate of 10%. The reason for this is...
A. Surgery has better long-term outcomes if the patient survives the first month, but a chance of fatal complications in the first month
B. The first way of describing the surgery leads them to focus on the people who survive rather than die.
C. The surgery described as having a one-month survival rate of 90% has higher expected utility than the surgery described as having a one-month mortality rate of 10%
D. The surgery described as having a one-month mortality rate of 10% has higher expected utility than the surgery described as having a one-month survival rate of 90%
Answer: B. The first way of describing the surgery leads them to focus on the people who survive rather than die.
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The backbone of the economy in the Roman Empire was:
a. agriculture b. mining c. information technology d. manufacturing
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A. Ayn Rand B. Jeremy Bentham C. Immanuel Kant D. John Stuart Mill
Gilbert Harman’s attempt to save the essence of the causal theory is called the
a. no false belief condition. b. conclusive reasons condition. c. inference to the best explanation theory. d. internal relations theory.