Exercise 2: Reframing "95% Success Rate" Into Loss-Oriented Language — Possible Solution =========================================================================================== A 95% success rate means the remaining 100% - 95% = 5% of cases are NOT successes - a failure rate of 5%. Loss-oriented reframing: "New policy has a 5% failure rate." Both statements describe the exact same real underlying number - out of every 100 cases, 95 succeed and 5 fail, regardless of which framing is used. Nothing about the actual policy's real performance changes between the two versions. Whether the two versions feel different is a personal reflection with no single correct answer, but the honest, expected pattern - matching the chapter's own real Asian disease and ground beef findings - is that "95% success rate" tends to sound considerably more reassuring and positive than "5% failure rate," even though a careful reader recognizes they describe the identical real outcome. If a reader notices their own gut reaction shifting between the two framings, that shift itself is direct, personal evidence of the framing effect described in this chapter operating on their own judgment in real time. ANSWER: "95% success rate" reframed in loss-oriented language becomes "5% failure rate" - the same real number (100% - 95% = 5%) expressed from the opposite direction. Most people report the "95% success" framing feeling notably more reassuring than the mathematically identical "5% failure" framing, which is itself a direct, personal demonstration of the same effect Tversky and Kahneman's real study documented. WHY THIS WORKS AS AN ANSWER ------------------------------ This correctly performs the reframing with the right arithmetic and connects the reader's own likely reaction directly back to the chapter's own documented real findings.