Misapplications Reviews: Good News Is No News?

Arnold Barnett and Jesse Goranson
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Arnold Barnett: Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, E53-379, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139
Jesse Goranson: Gemini Consulting, One Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142

Interfaces, 1996, vol. 26, issue 3, 35-39

Abstract: It is a truism that the media focus on unpleasant events: the plane that crashes gets more attention than the millions that do not. But such asymmetry is not supposed to accompany the reporting of statistics, which aim to offer perspective by summarizing lots of accumulated experience. Still, one wonders. Do unnerving numbers tend to get greater emphasis than those that are reassuring?

Keywords: professional: comments on; statistics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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