The main goal of “risk communication” is for experts to info

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The main goal of “risk communication” is for experts to inform laypeople of the potential dangers of new technologies and ecological phenomenon. In order for experts to effectively communicate risk, they must understand the extent of the knowledge base of those whom they hope to guide. Research has found that canned messages, which make no concessions to a person’s knowledge, are likely to leave those who hear or read the message feeling befuddled or indifferent.

Which of the following scenarios best captures the principle regarding effective “risk communication” elucidated in the passage?

A. The West Nile virus is a waterborne disease that infects very few in the United States, yet many Americans, after watching news reports about the disease, have an unwarranted fear that they will come down with the illness.
B. Some consumer advocates claim that constant use of cell-phones can cause brain tumors, especially in young children, though research has yet to reveal any such connection.
C. In an effort to combat the spike in skin cancer cases in the Southern part of the United States, the government has hired a team of health experts to design the labeling for a popular brand of skin creams.
D. A group of patients who were using a new pharmaceutical drug to reduce the risk of anxiety attacks has sued the manufacturer, claiming that neither physicians nor the drug’s packaging sufficiently warned against potential side effects.
E. Researchers hoping to inform the public about the risks of radon in the home devised a brochure based on the results from questionnaire that had been used to gauge the public’s understanding on the subject.

Please explain your answers along with OA. This will help the forum people too. :-)

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E

KarishmaB · Accepted Answer

Question: Which of the following scenarios best captures the principle regarding effective “risk communication”?

The first thing is to figure out the "principle" they are talking about in the passage.

Principle regarding risk communication: for experts to effectively communicate risk, they must understand the extent of the knowledge base of those whom they hope to guide.

Now we need to find the option that best captures this principle i.e. the scenario where experts tried to understand the extent of knowledge base of those whom they had to guide and then appropriately advised the people.

Option (E) tells you that this is what experts did in case of risks of Radon. In no other option (including option A) did the experts try to gauge the extent of knowledge of the client base.

Hope it makes more sense now.

Carcass · Answer

the potential dangers of new technologies and ecological phenomenon.

Only E has one of those: i.e: the radeon

E is the best answer even though the question is well formulated and tricky becasue after you have scanbned the first 4 answers, perhaps you are confused a lot.......good question from Mike

mba1382 · Answer

Really good question indeed. I got it correct but still took hell of a time 2:15 s :-(

Carcass · Answer

Is not that bad your time

It is still true that ON AVERAGE is 2.00 minutes but on average depends on the question: this imply more or less than that. do not be overstressed by the time, is perfectly fine though time is half of the game.

the secret of CR is to be really focus on the words or sentences of the stimulus, once you have clearly them you can nail it for sure

tinanguyen · Answer

Anyone please explains more why you choose E? In fact, i'm confused b/w A and E.
Thanks

aj33 · Answer

Hello all.

This question, though i don't understand what is trying to say, has its crux in only one line
“risk communication”. It is done by understanding what people know and then on the basis of that giving them more info to understand.

The question also says or highlights only consider risk communication and ignore everything else.

If we only consider this. what risk communication is, we can bring it down to answer E. But i would be happy if anyone can give a detailed explanation of what the question is and how we should understand this.

mikemcgarry  - please give us your views

sayantanc2k · Answer

The experts communicate to lay people the risk of X. This is called "risk communication".

However this communication can be ineffective when the experts do not consider the extent of knowledge of the lay people about X. Therefore the risk communication will be effective when the experts take into consideration the knowledge of lay people about X.

The question asks which of the answer choices is an example of effective risk communication- i.e. in which option the experts consider the knowledge of lay people while designing the risk communication?

Item E states that the experts (researchers) designed a brochure (risk communication) based on a feedback questionnaire (knowledge) from the lay people (public) - hence this communication should be effective. Thus E is the correct answer.

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