Numeracy

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In general, I feel uncomfortable with health information that has a lot of numbers and statistics.			CS03
In general, how easy or hard do you find it to understand medical statistics?			CS02
When people tell you the chance of something happening do you prefer they use words or numbers?			CS05
In general, I depend on numbers and statistics to help me make decisions about my health.			CS04
Which of the following numbers represents the biggest risk of getting a disease?			K03
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