Visceral influences

5 important questions on Visceral influences

What are two reasons why higher survival rates do not tell anything about mortality?

1. Lead time bias
- Screening results in early detection
- Point of diagnosis is earlier, without necessarily extending life

2. Overdiagnosis bias
- Screening inflates survival rates by including people with nonprogressive cancers that by definition do not lead to death

What is SURVIVORSHIP BIAS?

Concentrating on the people or things that made it past some selection process and overlooking those that did not, typically because of their lack of visibility.

What are Visceral factors?

Drive states such as "hunger, thirst and sexual desire, moods and emotions, physical pain, and craving for a drug one is addicted to."
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What are Visceral drive states (like hunger, thirst, fatigue, pain, and an assortment of cravings)?

Generally adaptive physiological signals that something important for survival is wrong or lacking.

What is motivational myopia?

Focus on goal of alleviating the visceral state at the expense of other important goals

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