Expression 17: "f" left parenthesis, "x" , right parenthesis equals StartFraction, left parenthesis, "x" , right parenthesis "x" Subscript, "A" , Baseline plus "y" Subscript, "A" , Baseline Over left parenthesis, "x" , right parenthesis "x" Subscript, "B" , Baseline plus "y" Subscript, "B" , Baseline , EndFraction left brace, "x" greater than 1 , right bracefx=xxA+yAxxB+yBx>1
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Drag the two red points around. They are the difference in suffering caused by intervention A and B respectively. The x axis is high-intensity pain, the y axis is low intensity pain
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The green curve is the reduction of intervention A, relative to the reduction of intervention B, as a function of the weighting between high and low intensity pain along the x axis (e.g. x=1 is where the two pain intensities are equally bad)
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The shaded orange regions are the "danger zones" (regions which, if D_B is in, will cause the ratio to blow up)
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The dashed blue lines are the two extreme values of the green curve (the values that the green curve will take when x=1, and x=infinity)