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Re:Risk, probability, and how our brains are easily misled on Wednesday June 08, 2011 @12:56PM (#2633928)
If interested in reading more, I highly recommend Dan Gardner's "Risk: The Science and Politics of Fear". (Also named "Science of Fear" in some markets.) It's a very good examination of risk perception and the cognitive faults we fall into.