Comments on: Why You’re Worse Than You Think At Estimating Risk

By: Brian Armstrong

Brian Armstrong — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 16:34:06 +0000

Thanks Erica. I think I got that off http://www.sxc.hu/ which has some decent (and totally free) stock photos which are good for blog posts. Actually, now I sometimes get them off Flickr which has better quality, you can use most of them there for free as long as you attribute the author since they are under the creative commons license.

By: ericabiz

ericabiz — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 23:18:42 +0000

thats crazy numbers (love the pic:)

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By: Brian Armstrong

Brian Armstrong — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 06:45:00 +0000

If thats true report it to the CDC and have them do an autopsy to prove it, it could save lives for people to know about it and they have no record of it.

By: Jayne Sipkins

Jayne Sipkins — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:30:28 +0000

my father died in 1994 due to mad cow’s disease in 1994. He had never traveled out of his hometown

By: Jayne Sipkins

Jayne Sipkins — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:27:46 +0000

my father died due to ad cow’s disease in 1994 in Southern Illinois. He had never traveled out of his hometown!

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[...] or to choke on a small plastic toy. Yet this is what gets the media attention. I wrote about this a while back, how humans are bad at estimating risk. After 9/11 many people were scared to fly, and this [...]

By: Brian Armstrong

Brian Armstrong — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:17:52 +0000

Thanks for the info Andrew, and Phil 5 out of 10 is quite impressive. The “list the top 3″ questions are much harder than the “which of these two” questions where you inherently have a 50/50 chance.

Where else in life do you see people being controlled by an irrational fear?

One big fear I see people have is in approaching strangers, either in dating or business networking. The risk is essentially zero, but people’s anxiety goes through the roof in these cases. Public speaking too.

By: Phil Reynolds

Phil Reynolds — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 20:13:56 +0000

Oh sure you are just trying to take away my happiness about getting that question right. :-P

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:38:57 +0000

It is important to note that there was one US resident who died of vCJD (Mad cow disease), Charlene Singh. She died in FL in 2004.

However, it is suspected that she contracted the disease by eating meat in England sometime prior to 1992.