Lumifer comments on A Cost- Benefit Analysis of Immunizing Healthy Adults Against Influenza - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Lumifer 11 November 2014 06:11:14AM *  2 points [-]

The costs in your calculations, they are costs for whom?

To make an obvious observation, medical insurance exists for a reason and a lot of people are employed in such a way that missing a week of work does not cost them $1000. Another lot of people isn't employed at all.

Comment author: Fluttershy 12 November 2014 06:15:03AM 0 points [-]

Since you wrote this comment, I've updated the calculations in such a way that it is now the case that:

All payoffs shown are the payoffs which an average individual would derive from experiencing particular outcomes, rather than the value which either society, employers, or other parties would gain from a given individual either getting sick or not.

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