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Speak up: The network is our superpower

March 13, 2015 By Susannah Fox 5 Comments

I have a new post up on Medium, illustrated with this gem from a 2012 post: An excerpt: We can’t let misinformation—or worse—go by without comment. I think it’s time for more people to speak up in health care. More pediatricians should express their measles outrage. More people should chronicle the reality of living with chronic conditions.

Filed Under: ethics, research issues, trends & principles, understanding statistics Tagged With: Pew Research Center, Stanford Medicine X

Who are you addicted to on Twitter? Research watchdog edition.

July 29, 2013 By Susannah Fox 3 Comments

Each one of these people cuts through hype and makes me feel smarter: Hilda Bastain – Editor & curator, PubMed Health. I’m addicted to her cartoons: Statistically funny. And I’m a new fan of her SciAm blog: Absolutely Maybe. @Laikas – Medical librarian, scientist, mom, human. I’m addicted to posts like: “Medpedia, the Medical Wikipedia, is Dead. And […]

Filed Under: key people, research issues, understanding statistics Tagged With: Twitter

Tracking for Health: Detailed Demographics

March 20, 2013 By Susannah Fox 8 Comments

Detailed demographic breakdowns for responses to health tracking questions

In response to popular demand, my Pew Research colleagues and I posted detailed demographic tables for the “Tracking for Health” study. I should warn you: These are not pretty tables. You may need a ruler to keep track of the rows and columns since we crammed as much data into each table as possible. But […]

Filed Under: demographics, understanding statistics Tagged With: Pew Internet, Pew Research Center, Quantified Self, tracking, Tracking for Health

Fact checking at Medicine X

October 5, 2012 By Susannah Fox 32 Comments

Pew Internet: Internet Help vs. Harm

I had the great honor of being part of the first Medicine X conference at Stanford University last weekend. I presented a sneak preview of new survey results collected by the Pew Internet Project and the California HealthCare Foundation. Overall, the conference was magical, as I wrote in a previous post. In this post I […]

Filed Under: ethics, trends & principles, understanding statistics Tagged With: Pew Internet, Stanford Medicine X

Chronic Disease in Data and Narrative–Susannah Fox

March 24, 2010 By Susannah Fox 60 Comments

For the past 5 months I have been immersed in data and narrative about chronic disease. The result, “Chronic Disease and the Internet,” is a report sponsored by the Pew Internet Project and the California HealthCare Foundation. We find that living with a heart condition, lung condition, high blood pressure, diabetes, and/or cancer has an […]

Filed Under: patient networks, understanding statistics Tagged With: california healthcare foundation, chronic disease, Pew Internet, Pew Research Center

Cyberchondria: Old Wine in New Bottles

December 2, 2008 By Susannah Fox 6 Comments

Just before Thanksgiving, Microsoft released a study entitled, “Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search.” Ryen White and Eric Horvitz took advantage of a data set that few people have access to (log files from Microsoft’s Live Search engine and MSN Health and Fitness) as well as a survey of 515 […]

Filed Under: news & gossip, understanding statistics Tagged With: artificial intelligence, cyberchondria, Diana Forsythe, microsoft, New York Times, search

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