Table 4.
Proportion of people overall and in non-numeric and numeric formats who state a most important reason for their answer about how likely they are to take the drug. Ordering of reasons was based on proportion of responses in the CMI format (the third column).
| Non-numeric formats | Numeric formats | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Non-numeric formats | Numeric formats | CMI | Risk label | Frequency | Frequency_Risk label | Percent | Percent_Risk label | |
| Very serious muscle damage | 17 | 10 | 24 | 10 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 9 |
| Serious side effects not likely | 18 | 26 | 21 | 16 | 22 | 30 | 25 | 30 |
| Prefer to avoid meds | 20 | 15 | 19 | 21 | 16 | 16 | 18 | 11 |
| Side effects not serious | 16 | 25 | 11 | 21 | 28 | 18 | 25 | 28 |
| Too many side effects | 13 | 8 | 9 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 8 |
| You don’t want to experience side effect | 3 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 6 | 4 |
| Other | 10 | 7 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 7 |
| None | 2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | |