It all comes down to risk acceptance and risk avoidance. And how one balances those two competing factors and decides between them depends upon who’s doing the weighing. There’s probably no one that’s done a better job of confronting humans with the blunt truths of this equation than the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. Would that we all could adopt its clear-eyed, level-headed, fact-based and honest approach to making risk-infused choices.
It all comes down to risk acceptance and risk avoidance. And how one balances those two competing factors and decides between them depends upon who’s doing the weighing. There’s probably no one that’s done a better job of confronting humans with the blunt truths of this equation than the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis. Would that we all could adopt its clear-eyed, level-headed, fact-based and honest approach to making risk-infused choices.