The Real Story of Risk

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jan 11, 2013

Glenn Croston explains the risks we face every day in the world and why we're not good at dealing with common risks in our lives. For example, heart disease is responsible for one in five deaths, but we more often worry about rare events like shark attacks (one in a million) and airplane crashes (one in twenty thousand). His book The Real Story of Risk: Adventures in a Hazardous World  investigates what accounts for our poor ability to perceive and react to the risks that really matter.

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