http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2588 Comments for "Is lettuce really out to get you?" en http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2588 <p><a href="http://www.dangoldstein.com/dsn/archives/2006/04/risk_tolerance.html"><img src="http://www.dangoldstein.com/dsn/archives/flip.gif" class="right"/></a>Bird flu, or mad-cow? Appendicitis or salmonella? Childbirth or malnutrition? The Actuarials have a message for us: Trusting our gut-reaction sense of risk is, well, risky business ...</p> <blockquote><p><cite class="blog-source">It's impossible to live a risk-free life: Everything we do increases some risks while lowering others. But if we understand our innate biases in the way we manage risks, we can adjust for them and genuinely stay safer -- without freaking out over every leaf of lettuce.</cite><br /> <i class="blog-source">[ <a href="http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=184338&amp;src=120">Daily Herald | Is lettuce really out to get you?</a> ]</i></p></blockquote> http://blog.teledyn.com/node/2588#comments there are verses about this Mon, 05 May 2008 12:03:37 -0400 mrG 2588 at http://blog.teledyn.com