A study of medical decision-making found that patients shown the same statistical information about a treatment, framed in terms of survival rates, were more likely to choose the treatment than those shown the information framed as mortality rates — even though the two presentations conveyed mathematically equivalent data. Physicians shown the same information were also affected by framing, though to a lesser degree.
Which inference is most strongly supported by the passage?
- A
Physicians are entirely immune to framing effects
- B
Mathematical equivalence of presentations guarantees identical decisions across audiences
- Ccheck_circle
Decisions about identical underlying information may shift with how the information is framed, even among trained professionals
- D
Patients always choose treatments at higher rates than physicians
Explanation
Framing affecting both groups despite equivalent information supports B. A, C, D contradict the findings.