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https://doi.org/10.24869/psyd.2018.491

WHY WE FEAR THE WRONG THINGS?


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Abstract

Deadly shark attacks, cancer from meat, toxic beer: Our health seems to be threatened seriousely all the time. But do we fear the real dangers? And how can we identify the big risks? How to deal with numbers and statistics.

Keywords

statistics; absolute risk; relative risk; cancer and evironmental dangers; correlation; causation; risk communication

Hrčak ID:

222243

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/222243

Publication date:

23.11.2018.

Article data in other languages: german

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