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Topic 4.4Digital Society SL12 flashcards

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4.4.1
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The five steps of a patient's path

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4.4.14 cards

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The five steps of a patient's path

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Symptom, access, triage, diagnosis, treatment — digital systems have entered all five.

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The key health question

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Does the system propose to a person, or does it decide? An error in the second has no owner.

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Why triage is the hardest case

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An error is a person waiting, and nobody sorted downwards is told they were sorted.

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Why overall accuracy misleads

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It hides much worse performance for groups barely present in the training data.

4.4.24 cards

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Four levels of technology and the body

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Carried, worn, implanted, and reading the nervous system.

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Why consent weakens down the ladder

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Refusing costs more at each level — at the bottom it costs your health, so agreement is formal rather than real.

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Why body data is different

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It cannot be changed, is collected continuously, and reveals illness, pregnancy and mood.

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What protects better than consent

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Limits on what may be collected at all, because a limit does not depend on the person's bargaining position.

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Why two rising lines prove little

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The cause may run either way, or a third factor may move both.

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Why averages mislead here

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A large effect on a small group disappears into a small average — and that group is the concern.

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Mechanisms worth naming

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Comparison, disturbed sleep, harassment that follows a person home, and targeted content.

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Why the narrow claim is stronger

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It names something a platform could change, so refusing to change it becomes the thing to judge.

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