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Länk - Vi är dåliga på att uppskatta risk - lång bra artikel

Shadowed by peril as we are, you would think we'd get pretty good at distinguishing the risks likeliest to do us in from the ones that are statistical long shots. But you would be wrong. We agonize over avian flu, which to date has killed precisely no one in the U.S., but have to be cajoled into getting vaccinated for the common flu, which contributes to the deaths of 36,000 Americans each year. We wring our hands over the mad cow pathogen that might be (but almost certainly isn't) in our hamburger and worry far less about the cholesterol that contributes to the heart disease that kills 700,000 of us annually.


Läs mer: TIME.com: Why We Worry About The Things We Shouldn't... ...And Ignore The Things We Should -- Dec. 4, 2006 -- Page 1
Posted by jorgen on 2006-12-10 12:40

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