Not sure if I got the science correct here? Any suggestions? Before: AIR QUALITY LEVELS IN OUTDOOR AIR ARE PREDICTED TO BE GREATER THAN AN AIR QUALITY INDEX VALUE OF 100 FOR THE POLLUTANT OF GROUND LEVEL OZONE. THE AIR QUALITY INDEX…OR AQI…WAS CREATED AS AN EASY WAY TO CORRELATE LEVELS OF DIFFERENT POLLUTANTS TO […]
Air Quality Alert for NYC just came over my phone. Bravo to the city for making it available in ASL on my screen. But you just gotta love the incomprehensible language the National Weather Service provides if you want more info. http://1.usa.gov/1VL26kj——–AIR QUALITY LEVELS IN OUTDOOR AIR ARE PREDICTED TO BE GREATER THAN AN AIR QUALITY […]
Thank you to all my friends you signed the Change.org – “Petitioning Secretary of Health and Human Services and 3 others Protest High Cancer Drug Prices so all Patients with Cancer have Access to Affordable Drugs to Save their Lives”. I’m writing about a problem with the petition. When I re-read the list of petition […]
Here are 5 of them: 1.Circular Definition 2.Definition uses overly complex medical/science words/concepts 3.Definition uses overly complex sentence structure 4.Recursive Definition 5. Non–definition Definition Interested? Check out 2 new Lessons at the Health Literacy Lab. Reminder I’m blogging at https://healthliteracylab.com/blog/ facebook.com/healthliteracylab @czarc
The Riskbites.org folks have done a nice job in white-boarding an explanation of Risk. They capitalize on PLUTO interest. Just blogged about it. https://healthliteracylab.com/explaining-risk-in-context-ca…/ ———————– I’m now blogging about public health and safety literacy https://healthliteracylab.com/blog/ facebook.com/healthliteracylab @czarc
This week I’ve been writing about how unnecessarily difficult the definitions about things “transgender” are. The definition problems are guilty of 3 associated types of definition failures (fallacies). 1. Circular Definitions You assume your audience has a prior understanding of the terms you’re using in your definition. The words and concepts you’re […]
“For all intents and purposes, I am a woman,” Caitlyn Jenner states to Diane Sawyer on “20/20” Friday (April 24, 2015). With over 750,000 transgender persons in the US, and an estimated 15,000 active members in the armed forces, the Jenner story has (fortunately) propelled ubiquitous discussion about transgender – in the media, among advocates […]
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From the headline I was hopeful that the story would be touching on, if not outright discussing zoonosis. ( I’ve been writing about this for a while now). But… Even though Randy Olson, executive director of the Iowa PoultryAssociation calls the current Avian flu outbreak the “worst animal disease outbreak in Iowa’s history” his vision […]
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