PEOPLE ARE OFTEN AFRAID OF THINGS THAT AREN'T DANGEROUS..???
Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:56 am
People are often afraid of things that aren't dangerous.
That is why this kidd is saying FU-CK JUBA-LAND.
This may make it less surprising that DOWLADSADE fail to fear some things that really are dangerous. What we fear appears to vary systematically depending on our familiarity with various hazards, our interests, our social situation and a variety of other factors.
Risk analysis seeks to quantify and compare the dangers we face, but it is more difficult to quantify the dangers we believe ourselves to face. In a famous paper titled "Perception of Risk," developed a method for mapping and quantifying people's fears by plotting them in two dimensions.
On one dimension, I included factors that contribute to the "known-ness" or "unknown-ness" of the thing feared.
Risks were classified as "unknown" when they involved causal processes that were unobservable or unknown to those who were exposed to them, when the effects were delayed over time, associated with new technology or involved dangers that were "unknown to science."
For example, I found that people regard outomobile accidents as dangerous and risky but feel that they understand these risks pretty well.
Fears associated with radioactive waste and microwave ovens, on the other hand, were based in part on people's sense that they did not understand like this BA'YEY-SADE did not understand the potential dangers that might be involved if you miss with RAADAMIIR.
Fears associated with these technologies were, at least in part, fears of the unknown.
On the second dimension, I asked people to rank their fears according to the extent to which they involved outcomes associated with an emotional reaction of "dread." Risks inspired feelings of "dread" when they were regarded as uncontrollable, globally catastrophic, had fatal consequences, involved inequitable distributions of danger and benefit, involved risks for future generations, increased over time or were involuntary.
Next, since I start caming this GEDO forum I tested the extent to which people desired strict regulation to control or reduce various different risks.
Not surprisingly, I RAADAMIIR found that people had a stronger desire for regulation where risks were both "unknown" and "dreaded.
"Unfortunately, the extent of our fears and the strength of our desire for regulation are frequently disproportionate.
They may have very little to do with the actual dangers we face.
RAADAMIIR's data indicate that the people involved in my research study regarded the hazards associated with "satellite crashes" as both "unknown" and as associated with a high degree of "dread." People reported a relatively strong interest in strict regulation aimed at reducing the risks associated with satellite crashes.
But considered objectively, the risks associated with crashing satellites are infinitesimal.
BA'YEY-SADE, you need to step-down and run away from here.
I did mension this Atomic-Bomb would be hit if you don't stop mess-around me.
I need to see from you courtesy and bow-down on me, or I swear you will keep saying BAYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY.
That is why this kidd is saying FU-CK JUBA-LAND.
This may make it less surprising that DOWLADSADE fail to fear some things that really are dangerous. What we fear appears to vary systematically depending on our familiarity with various hazards, our interests, our social situation and a variety of other factors.
Risk analysis seeks to quantify and compare the dangers we face, but it is more difficult to quantify the dangers we believe ourselves to face. In a famous paper titled "Perception of Risk," developed a method for mapping and quantifying people's fears by plotting them in two dimensions.
On one dimension, I included factors that contribute to the "known-ness" or "unknown-ness" of the thing feared.
Risks were classified as "unknown" when they involved causal processes that were unobservable or unknown to those who were exposed to them, when the effects were delayed over time, associated with new technology or involved dangers that were "unknown to science."
For example, I found that people regard outomobile accidents as dangerous and risky but feel that they understand these risks pretty well.
Fears associated with radioactive waste and microwave ovens, on the other hand, were based in part on people's sense that they did not understand like this BA'YEY-SADE did not understand the potential dangers that might be involved if you miss with RAADAMIIR.
Fears associated with these technologies were, at least in part, fears of the unknown.
On the second dimension, I asked people to rank their fears according to the extent to which they involved outcomes associated with an emotional reaction of "dread." Risks inspired feelings of "dread" when they were regarded as uncontrollable, globally catastrophic, had fatal consequences, involved inequitable distributions of danger and benefit, involved risks for future generations, increased over time or were involuntary.
Next, since I start caming this GEDO forum I tested the extent to which people desired strict regulation to control or reduce various different risks.
Not surprisingly, I RAADAMIIR found that people had a stronger desire for regulation where risks were both "unknown" and "dreaded.
"Unfortunately, the extent of our fears and the strength of our desire for regulation are frequently disproportionate.
They may have very little to do with the actual dangers we face.
RAADAMIIR's data indicate that the people involved in my research study regarded the hazards associated with "satellite crashes" as both "unknown" and as associated with a high degree of "dread." People reported a relatively strong interest in strict regulation aimed at reducing the risks associated with satellite crashes.
But considered objectively, the risks associated with crashing satellites are infinitesimal.
BA'YEY-SADE, you need to step-down and run away from here.
I did mension this Atomic-Bomb would be hit if you don't stop mess-around me.
I need to see from you courtesy and bow-down on me, or I swear you will keep saying BAYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEY.
