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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by doliveira on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @03:30AM (#23004459)
I don't know enough about psychology to Google the exact term, but let's not be so pedantic as to pretend it is not at least a plausible assumption.
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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by nostrebored on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @04:59AM (#23005091)
No, this is a stance that's completely unsubstantiated, with the obvious tie in to COVID-19 that's also unsubstantiated.
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Re:The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is bein... by doliveira on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @07:23AM (#23005891)
Can you point to a study about this? In Bayesian terms most people would put the prior probability in favor of his common sense hypothesis. And you just have to Google for "psychology of risk perception" to get a few more studies in favor of it.
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