How the Media Influences Our Fear of Terrorism (Schneier on Security)

2017-01-24 12:31

Good article that crunches the data and shows that the press's coverage of terrorism is disproportional to its comparative risk. This isn't new. I've written about it before, and wrote about it more generally when I wrote about the psychology of risk, fear, and security. Basically, the issue is the availability heuristic. We tend to infer the probability of something...

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