Those darn Dutch are sooooo smart.....

KathiM
KathiM Member Posts: 8,028 Member
edited March 2014 in Colorectal Cancer #1
"If by breast exam, abnormalities are found but subsequently found to be false, women will suffer from fear, which affects their quality of life negatively for a year. In women which breast cancer has been diagnosed, their uncertainty last much less long. This came from a research project of the university and hospitals in The Netherlands."

DUHHHHHHHHH! Who would have EVER thought such a thing??? And it took formal RESEARCH to find it????? Why not just ask US?????

(Can I come back to America, where the healthcare is expensive and in some cases nonexistent, but the research is a bit more on track?????)

Dutch hugs, Kathi

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  • AnneCan
    AnneCan Member Posts: 3,673 Member
    #2
    OK I am a marketing research
    OK I am a marketing research specialist (amongst other talents; I am a consultant). They are not comparing apples to apples here - they are reporting on FEAR when abnormalities are false, + UNCERTAINITY when they diagnosed. They are two diiferent things, often related but not equal. You can be fearful without uncertainty + uncertain without fear. for example, I am uncertain what time the snowstorm is going to hit, but I am not fearful. Either this research has been reported poorly or was designed with poor questions. They probably did ask patients, just didn't do a good job of it IMO. When I read your post + it said how smart the Dutch were, I was ready to say it must have been the result after the Canadians participated in the liberation of Holland during WWII!lol- I won't make that claim now.
  • KathiM
    KathiM Member Posts: 8,028 Member
    #3
    AnneCan said:

    OK I am a marketing research
    OK I am a marketing research specialist (amongst other talents; I am a consultant). They are not comparing apples to apples here - they are reporting on FEAR when abnormalities are false, + UNCERTAINITY when they diagnosed. They are two diiferent things, often related but not equal. You can be fearful without uncertainty + uncertain without fear. for example, I am uncertain what time the snowstorm is going to hit, but I am not fearful. Either this research has been reported poorly or was designed with poor questions. They probably did ask patients, just didn't do a good job of it IMO. When I read your post + it said how smart the Dutch were, I was ready to say it must have been the result after the Canadians participated in the liberation of Holland during WWII!lol- I won't make that claim now.

    ...or a breakdown in my translation....
    ....or a bad job of newspaper reporting....

    Dutch hugs (lol), Kathi
  • pepebcn
    pepebcn Member Posts: 6,331 Member
    #4
    KathiM said:

    ...or a breakdown in my translation....
    ....or a bad job of newspaper reporting....

    Dutch hugs (lol), Kathi

    .....or simply they are like this!....hahahaha.Not seriously
    they are some of the most cleaver and ingenious people in the world, hard working people and good businessmen ! .May be too good businessmen just ask to the Spanish Crown from 14 th to 18 th century! hahahaha!.
    zie je later!.

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