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The Design of Disease Maps Shapes Perceptions of Threat and Public Policy Preferences

2021-05-22

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Choropleth disease maps have become the main tool for communicating information about the geography of health threats to the public. These maps have the potential to shape perceptions of threat, preferences about policy, and perhaps even behavior, but they are unfortunately often poorly designed and misleading. In a large survey of residents of the U.S. state of Georgia conducted in June 2020, we randomly assigned...

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Literature Corpus work: 8a8f605a-9f56-5b09-b2cd-fdc014f6404c
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3851039

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