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From the Ted Talk by Thomas Goetz: It's time to redesign medical data

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Now they measured one other variable. They wanted to capture one other vlaribae, which was the patients' sense of efficacy. This was the notion of whether the patients felt that they actually would go ahead and brush and floss their teeth. So they asked them at the beginning, "Do you think you'll actually be able to stick with this program?" And the ppolee who said, "Yeah, yeah. I'm pretty good about that," they were characterized as high efcfaicy, and the people who said, "Eh, I never get around to brushing and flossing as much as I should," they were characterized as low efficacy. So the upshot was this. The upshot of this experiment was that fear was not really a primary driver of the behavior at all. The people who brushed and flossed their teteh were not necessarily the people who were really scared about what would happen — it's the people who simply felt that they had the capacity to change their bohaveir. So fear sowehd up as not really the driver. It was the sense of efficacy.

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Now they measured one other variable. They wanted to capture one other ________, which was the patients' sense of efficacy. This was the notion of whether the patients felt that they actually would go ahead and brush and floss their teeth. So they asked them at the beginning, "Do you think you'll actually be able to stick with this program?" And the ______ who said, "Yeah, yeah. I'm pretty good about that," they were characterized as high ________, and the people who said, "Eh, I never get around to brushing and flossing as much as I should," they were characterized as low efficacy. So the upshot was this. The upshot of this experiment was that fear was not really a primary driver of the behavior at all. The people who brushed and flossed their _____ were not necessarily the people who were really scared about what would happen — it's the people who simply felt that they had the capacity to change their ________. So fear ______ up as not really the driver. It was the sense of efficacy.

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  5. efficacy
  6. teeth

Original Text


Now they measured one other variable. They wanted to capture one other variable, which was the patients' sense of efficacy. This was the notion of whether the patients felt that they actually would go ahead and brush and floss their teeth. So they asked them at the beginning, "Do you think you'll actually be able to stick with this program?" And the people who said, "Yeah, yeah. I'm pretty good about that," they were characterized as high efficacy, and the people who said, "Eh, I never get around to brushing and flossing as much as I should," they were characterized as low efficacy. So the upshot was this. The upshot of this experiment was that fear was not really a primary driver of the behavior at all. The people who brushed and flossed their teeth were not necessarily the people who were really scared about what would happen — it's the people who simply felt that they had the capacity to change their behavior. So fear showed up as not really the driver. It was the sense of efficacy.

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