Today is Paint It Pink day.
Jeanne Sutton at Image.ie writes:
“An infographic we prepped for #paintitpink with the facts and figures about breast cancer in Ireland….”
34,798.
Breast Cancer in Ireland: The Facts (Image.ie)
Related: A clever online campaign by the US Breast Cancer Foundation for October Breast Awareness month.
Sponsored Link
Oh dear
They seem to have forgotten to mention the Lead-time bias which has a significant effect on the rate of surviving breast cancer in the screening age
Pain tit pink is a great tagline. Well done to all who came up with that.
there’s 11 women in that 1-in-10 graphic. muppets
This!
Britney’s Bob: Yay or Nay?
2,857 women diagnosed with breast caner in 2012; 685 ‘people’ died of breast cancer….
Do moobs count?
Men can get breast cancer yes.
Thanks :)
Hmmmm… Check out Gerd Gigerenzer’s book ‘Risk Savvy’
“All women and women’s organisations should tear up the pink ribbons and campaign for honest information”
Overview of his research paper below
http://www.bmj.com/content/348/bmj.g2636
Summary, if you don’t have any pain/symptoms, the risk’s of pre-screening (IMHO) FAR outweigh not getting screened. At least give people an informed choice rather than the biased stats they show.
I think info graphics do a disservice to the information they are supposed to be communicating.
A client got all excited recently asking me for one to put up on Facebook. When I asked why she had no answer other than “Everyone is doing them”.
She has a Masters in marketing from one of those pretend colleges.
“I think info graphics do a disservice to the information they are supposed to be communicating”
Then you’ve been looking at a lot of sh*t infographics, I’d guess. And many are OTT, mashed up, nonsensical, incoherent, illegible, rubbish, so I can’t blame you for thinking that way. There was one on this site a few months ago with more mistakes than a dyslexics first spelling test. That’s what drives me nuts about them, all that effort and the facts are wrong…. straight to the bin with it.
When done right, they can be brilliant.