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How is the headline clickbait? It's a true finding of the study. I would say that a headline leading with the 3% figure would be much more misleading, since the
by belovedeagle 11y ago
How is the headline clickbait? It's a true finding of the study. I would say that a headline leading with the 3% figure would be much more misleading, since the relevant figure for someone considering whether to receive medical treatment (for example) is the "1 in 2" figure. I don't care if the doctors only mess up 3% of my medication interactions; just one is bad enough.
- vpribish 11y agoI called it clickbaity for 2 reasons : 1) The buzzfeed style (gotta have some digits!) didn't help because any reasonable person would have said "half". 2) While 1:2 is technically true it's also the scariest number they could choose and is useless out of context. the level of fear and outrage goes down upon reading the article. also, it really does matter how many erroneous medication interactions you have - not just operations-with-at-least-one. Most of the errors did not have dire consequences (there were no fatalities in the study). Errors are bad, but it's not all errors are equal.
- dang 11y agoOk, we'll put "half" in the title. Seems pretty mild on the linkbait spectrum, but still, that's a good edit.
- cowsandmilk 11y agoMost people have no clue how much medication they receive during surgery, so saying 5% of medication interactions have errors is almost useless. What most people care about: "I'm having surgery today, what are the odds someone will make a mistake during my surgery?"; the headline answers that question directly.