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"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." Despite its misleading title, this article explores the human (not just American) tendency to get calculations of risk wrong.

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Subject(s): Organizational Behavior, Risk Management

Source(s): TIME

Author(s): Jeffrey Kluger

Posted: 2007-12-12

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