http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/06/22/this-advice-makes-sense-for-you-but-not-for-me/ Thoughts and Stories of an Entrepreneur on the Web Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:43:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/06/22/this-advice-makes-sense-for-you-but-not-for-me/#comment-1289 Sun, 25 Jun 2006 12:43:21 +0000 http://mattinglot.com/blog/2006/06/22/this-advice-makes-sense-for-you-but-not-for-me/#comment-1289 [...] Advice Makes Sense for You, But Not for Me Matt Inglot examines the value of objective advice in This Advice Makes Sense for You, But Not for Me: I read a very interesting New York Times article yesterday, describing a study where participantswere asked whether to recommend a vaccine (which came with a 5% risk of death) for a disease that you had a 10% chance of catching and dying from. Logically the vaccine is the better choice, but people’s answers differed drastically based on the role they were in. [...] […] Advice Makes Sense for You, But Not for Me Matt Inglot examines the value of objective advice in This Advice Makes Sense for You, But Not for Me: I read a very interesting New York Times article yesterday, describing a study where participantswere asked whether to recommend a vaccine (which came with a 5% risk of death) for a disease that you had a 10% chance of catching and dying from. Logically the vaccine is the better choice, but people’s answers differed drastically based on the role they were in. […]

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