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Clinicians are often advised to use pictographs to communicate risk, but whether they offer benefits when communicating risk imprecision (e.g., 65%-79%) is unknown.To test whether any of three approaches to visualizing imprecision would more effectively communicate breast and ovarian cancer risk for1,300 UK residents were presented with a genetic report with information aboutThere was no effect of format. Participants shown pictographs vs. text alone had better uptake of breast cancer risk messages (We found weak evidence in favor of using simple pictographs with ranges to communicateTesting different ways of communicating imprecision within pictographs is a novel and promising line of research. |