Misleading Medical Statistics

Health Misinformation — Current Priorities of the U.S.

https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/health-misinformation/index.html

Defining misinformation Misinformation is information that is false, inaccurate, or misleading according to the best available evidence at the time. Effects related to COVID-19 During the pandemic, health misinformation has led people to decline vaccines, reject public health …

Three Misleading, Dangerous Coronavirus Statistics

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertpearl/2020/09/22/3-misleading-dangerous-coronavirus-statistics/

Spinning science: Overhyped headlines, …

https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/center-news/2020/02/spinning-science-overhyped-headlines-snarled-statistics-lead-readers-astray.html

Epidemiological and clinical research, usually the studies that attract the most attention from the media, …

U.S. Health Outcomes Compared to Other Countries Are …

https://www.forbes.com/sites/physiciansfoundation/2018/04/09/u-s-health-outcomes-compared-to-other-countries-are-misleading/

The effectiveness of our healthcare system should not be denigrated because of infant mortality statistics. Serious social problems like poverty, teen pregnancies and …

Misleading Statistics – Real World Examples For Misuse …

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The Worst Covid-19 Misleading Graphs - Data Science Central

https://www.datasciencecentral.com/the-worst-covid-19-misleading-graphs/

So the fact that negative results were counted multiple times becomes hugely problematic. Whistleblower Rebekah Jones, who was reportedly fired for refusing to …

Misleading Statistics Can Be Dangerous …

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The term “misleading statistics” describes any statistical method that represents data incorrectly. Whether it was intentional or not, it would still count as …

Duo writes about how health statistics can …

https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2009/12/duo-writes-about-how-health-statistics-can-mislead/

One of the most misleading, but rather common, tricks is to use relative risks when talking about the benefits of a treatment, for example to say that “Women …

Too good to be true: 39 products with exaggerated or …

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2020/12/16/39-most-outrageous-product-claims-of-all-time/115127274/

5-hour Energy alleged that its energy drink shots were more effective than coffee and that doctors recommended it. Those claims were found to be deceptive, and …

Health websites are notoriously misleading.

https://www.statnews.com/2019/07/26/health-websites-are-notoriously-misleading-so-we-rated-their-reliability/

Of the sites analyzed by NewsGuard, 11% provide misinformation about health; in other words, more than 1 in 10 news websites accessed by Americans …