In their PNAS article, the researchers describe how seemingly benign decisions, such as the diameter of a spool, or the speed at which a cable is deployed, can dramatically affect the way that the cable lies on the ground.
The weight of that often brought out strong, emotional responses to even the most benign decisions.
Those different views can show up in a variety of situations ranging from relatively benign decisions such as choosing a restaurant or movie to choices over where to invest savings and which religion to raise our children in.
For women at average risk of ovarian cancer who are undergoing a hysterectomy for benign conditions, the decision to perform prophylactic bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy should be individualized after appropriate informed consent, including a careful analysis of personal risk factors.
The result of this seemingly benign foreign policy decision is a starkly human one.
In our research this was 13.4 % (34/253) of tumors, but for the final analysis of "suspicious" masses we also included tumors which were "probably malignant" and "probably benign", where the decision is in some way uncertain as well.
Tanaka defended the group as benign and downplayed his decision to keep a tattoo of the group's insignia despite the county paying out $7.5 million to settle lawsuits claiming abuse by Viking members.
For example, our decision to exclude benign cases and include only the malignant cases in this study precludes us from using our models for prospective risk prediction.
Community men at risk for prostate cancer due to age were recruited from a study of decision making in benign prostatic hyperplasia.
"At its most benign, secrecy impedes informed government decisions and an informed public; at worst, it enables corruption and malfeasance," the board reminded the president.
