A Look at Biases and Risks MOST PEOPLE WOULD SAY SHARKS
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- A Look at Biases and Risks
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- MOST PEOPLE WOULD SAY SHARKS
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- BUT THE REAL ANSWER IS COWS
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- Micromort Unit of acute risk 1 in 1,000,000 chance of
dying
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- Availability Bias Bad News Effect
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- = report on shark attacks = report on cow stampedes = 66 U.S.
results on NY Times MORE LIKELY TO BE ATTACKED BY SHARKS =1 result
on NY Times LESS LIKELY TO BE ATTACKED BY COWS
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- Time Magazine declared 2001 the Summer of the Shark. The
Thereafter, any encounter with a shark made prime time news. 2001:
5 Worldwide Killed in 76 Attacks 2000: 12 Worldwide Killed in 85
Attacks
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- Annual Shark Week every Summer 55 Wiki pages in Category: Films
about Sharks
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- 7 Wiki pages in Category: Films about Cows
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- 41,149 suicides U.S. 2013 16,121 homicides U.S. 2013
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- Too many movies 533 Wiki pages in Category: Serial Killer
Films
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- 170 Wiki pages in Category: Films about Suicide
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- TAKE HOME: Media can have a huge influence in the biases we
hold because of how available and memorable it portrays
events.
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