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Comment on An engineering approach to problem solving by joan

joan — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 18:22:34 +0000

and how they approach the problems

Comment on About Me by Michael L. Millenson: The Fine Line Between Shared and Manipulated Medical Decisions | Business News

Fri, 11 Nov 2011 21:16:35 +0000

[...] on those website health calculators makes them less believable and harder to remember, said Holly Witteman, a University of Michigan researcher. Adding any decimal place data caused up to 10 percent of [...]

Comment on Health Literacy, Numeracy and Risk by Holly

Holly — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 01:18:18 +0000

Update: The manuscript is out, and I also presented our findings at a conference recently.

Paper: http://www.jmir.org/2011/3/e54/

Conference abstract: http://smdm.confex.com/smdm/2011ch/webprogram/Paper6629.html

Comment on About Me by The Fine Line Between Shared and Manipulated Medical Decisions | The Health Care Blog

Mon, 07 Nov 2011 15:10:34 +0000

Comment on An engineering approach to problem solving by Suyash

Suyash — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 04:27:01 +0000

Very well put!!
I perfectly got what i was looking for. Thanks…

Comment on Mama, Ph.D. by Recent Reading: Brief Reviews Part 1 | Holly Witteman

Recent Reading: Brief Reviews Part 1 | Holly Witteman — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:39:56 +0000

[...] wanted to love this book. I didn’t. As previously mentioned, I love creative nonfiction and books of personal essays. Also, I have followed dooce.com [...]

Comment on The Psychology of the B Lane Swimmer by Rebecca Moore

Rebecca Moore — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:58:35 +0000

thanks. so true– my daughter swims mostly in the B Lane this last year and half. She just about hates her swimming now…
maybe this insight will help?

Comment on The Psychology of the B Lane Swimmer by Gobi

Gobi — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:29:30 +0000

like this post…i’ve always thoguht this, but could not full articulate the thought.

Comment on Data, Information and Knowledge by Sarah Luczaj

Sarah Luczaj — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 09:28:41 +0000

Hi Holly!

Have you read Malcolm Gladwell’s Blink? Seems to fit in here…

Comment on Data, Information and Knowledge by Peter Levesque

Peter Levesque — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 13:31:08 +0000

Great blog post – for some interesting discussions of these issues, you may wish to look at “The Social Life of Information” by John Seely Brown & Paul Duguid or “Grown up Digital” by Don Tapscott.

In much of the work I do, I help health and education organizations focus on the other elements of a knowledge ecology. While content is considered King, I offer a less feudal version that stresses the importance of the relationships between content, context, capacity, and culture, surrounded by complex and emergent conversations.

For some really interesting new theories, look at Quantum information systems.