Is 1/10 > 10/100? The Effect Of Denominator Salience On Perceptions Of Base Rates Of Health Risk

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"According to the National Institutes of Health, an estimated 1,400 student deaths ... are blamed on alcohol.... About 79 percent of UC students reported they had used alcohol in the past year." "Nearly one-third binge at least once a month... The behavior... is engaged in monthly by 5 million high school students ... this number equals 31 percent of the nation's high school students." "In 1999, roughly 1 out of every 13 U.S. high school students reported making a suicide attempt in the previous 12 months. More teens and young adults die from suicide than cancer, heart disease, AIDS, birth defects, stroke, pneumonia, influenza, and chronic lung disease combined." "Did you know ... More Americans die from suicide (28,332) than from homicide (16,137)?" "Judge told VA stalls on care while 18 veterans a day commit suicide."