Comments on: Risk: Pigs and Sharks http://episteme.ca/2006/09/01/risk-pigs-and-sharks/ Tue, 29 Nov 2011 06:47:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Whose Risk? « Neohapsis Labs http://episteme.ca/2006/09/01/risk-pigs-and-sharks/comment-page-1/#comment-1193 Whose Risk? « Neohapsis Labs Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:00:49 +0000 http://episteme.ca/wp/?p=16#comment-1193 [...] isn’t specified. (I have also previously talked (ranted?) about this type of confusion here and [...] [...] isn’t specified. (I have also previously talked (ranted?) about this type of confusion here and [...]

]]> By: Mike Murray http://episteme.ca/2006/09/01/risk-pigs-and-sharks/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Mike Murray Tue, 05 Sep 2006 18:15:09 +0000 http://episteme.ca/wp/?p=16#comment-21 I don't agree with him on the conclusion - that there is more risk globally from pigs than sharks has no bearing at all on the risk assessment that I (as an individual) should make when encountering a pig or a shark. The suggestion in the statement is that we're bad at assessing risk because we fear sharks more than we fear pigs. Where I disagree with Bruce is that I believe that humans are excellent judges of risk to ourselves - our instinct is completely appropriate. And that in making the distinction between local and global risk, you can accept that - it doesn't make humans wrong for not being afraid of if you consider that they're making a local (not global) assessment of risk. I don’t agree with him on the conclusion – that there is more risk globally from pigs than sharks has no bearing at all on the risk assessment that I (as an individual) should make when encountering a pig or a shark.

The suggestion in the statement is that we’re bad at assessing risk because we fear sharks more than we fear pigs.

Where I disagree with Bruce is that I believe that humans are excellent judges of risk to ourselves – our instinct is completely appropriate. And that in making the distinction between local and global risk, you can accept that – it doesn’t make humans wrong for not being afraid of if you consider that they’re making a local (not global) assessment of risk.

]]> By: Anton Chuvakin http://episteme.ca/2006/09/01/risk-pigs-and-sharks/comment-page-1/#comment-22 Anton Chuvakin Tue, 05 Sep 2006 16:03:56 +0000 http://episteme.ca/wp/?p=16#comment-22 Hmm, don't you kinda agree with him via "[...] globally, we'd end up with more risk from pigs"? Hmm, don’t you kinda agree with him via “[...] globally, we’d end up with more risk from pigs”?

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