Checking off symptoms online affects our perceptions of risk
"You've been feeling under the weather. You Google your symptoms. A
half-hour later, you're convinced it's nothing serious—or afraid you
have cancer. More than 60 percent of Americans get their health
information online, and a majority of those decide whether to see a
doctor based on what they find. "Wow, this is an era of self-diagnosis,"
thought Arizona State University psychologist Virginia Kwan, learning
that statistic. How might information accessed online affect individual
health decisions?....."
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Albert Einstein
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