Tversky and Kahneman gave people the two identical problems ( with the same probabilities of life and death outcomes-see fig 1 ) but framed the outcome choices as either lives saved or as deaths . 10 Most people wanted to avoid taking risks with gains which could be safeguarded, but would take risks with losses which might be avoided; this is a framing effect.
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Critical tests have been conducted to provide evidence in support of this explanation in favor of other theoretical explanations ( i . e ., Prospect theory ) by presenting a modified version of this task that eliminates some mathematically redundant wording, e . g ., program B would instead indicate that " If program B is adopted, there is 1 / 3 probability that 600 people will be saved . " FTT predicts, in this case, that the elimination of the additional gist ( the explicit possible death in program B ) would result in indifference and eliminate the framing effect, which is indeed what was found.
