One danger of reporting relative risk or relative likelihood information rather than frequencies is that:
A) people may not understand what the relative risk information means.
B) the base rate occurrence of an event is not reported, and the data can be misleading.
C) people may be frightened on hearing the relative risk for a positive event.
D) the proportion of events is not reported.

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Reporting only relative risk or likelihood information can be misleading because it doesn't provide information about how often the event occurs. For example, a relative risk increase of 50% sounds substantial, but if the baseline risk is low, the absolute risk increase may be small. Thus, reporting frequencies along with relative risk or likelihood information is important to provide a more complete picture.

One Danger of Reporting Relative Risk or Relative Likelihood Information