Valerie Reyna

May 18, 2023 | nature.com | Valerie Reyna

AbstractThe onus on the average person is greater than ever before to make sense of large amounts of readily accessible quantitative information, but the ability and confidence to do so are frequently lacking. Many people lack practical mathematical skills that are essential for evaluating risks, probabilities and numerical outcomes such as survival rates for medical treatments, income from retirement savings plans or monetary damages in civil trials.

Mar 3, 2023 | science.org | Ananth Balashankar |Hyun-Ji Park |Ziv Epstein |Valerie Reyna

From the invention of the printing press to direct-to-consumer drug advertising, the democratization of information is a long-term trend (1). Today’s technology allows the public to access an abundance of information and the onus is increasingly on them to use it to make decisions, as in patient-centered medical decisions (2).