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The Allegedly Simple Structure of Experts’ Risk Perception: An Urban Legend in Risk Research
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In this article, the authors claim that experts often see risks in their own field of expertise as smaller than the public does, and that risk perception is different from the general public's.Abstract:
Experts have been claimed to perceive risks in a different way than the general public. It is likely that experts often see risks in their own field of expertise as smaller than the public does, bu...read more
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Expert and public perception of risk from biotechnology.
Lucia Savadori,Stefania Savio,Eraldo Francesco Nicotra,Rino Rumiati,Melissa L. Finucane,Paul Slovic +5 more
TL;DR: Risk perceptions of a series of biotechnology applications were examined in a public (nonexpert) sample and an expert sample and experts perceived both food and medical applications as less harmful and more useful.
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Environmental contaminants and human health in the Canadian Arctic.
Shawn G. Donaldson,J. Van Oostdam,Constantine Tikhonov,Mark Feeley,B. Armstrong,Pierre Ayotte,Olivier Boucher,W. Bowers,L. Chan,Frederic Dallaire,Renée Dallaire,Eric Dewailly,Joanne Edwards,Grace M. Egeland,J. Fontaine,Chris Furgal,Tara Leech,E. Loring,Gina Muckle,T. Nancarrow,Daria Pereg,Pierrich Plusquellec,Mary Potyrala,Olivier Receveur,R.G. Shearer +24 more
TL;DR: The third Canadian Arctic Human Health Assessment addressed concerns about possible adverse health effects in individuals exposed to environmental contaminants through a diet containing country foods, and Inuit continue to have the highest levels of almost all persistent organic pollutants and metals among the ethnic groups studied.
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The information security digital divide between information security managers and users
Eirik Albrechtsen,Jan Hovden +1 more
TL;DR: A digital divide exists between information security managers and users in terms of their views on and experience of information security practices, resulting in management approaches that are poorly aligned with the dynamics of the users' working day.
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The quality of food risk management in Europe: Perspectives and Priorities
Julie Houghton,Gene Rowe,Lynn J. Frewer,E. van Kleef,George Chryssochoidis,Olga Kehagia,Sara Korzen-Bohr,Jesper Lassen,U. Pfenning,A. Strada +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the issue of food risk management as practised in Western Europe and identify two priorities relevant to our understanding of effective food-risk management: 1) a need for further research to determine the source and nature of the different evaluative perspectives, and 2) the key stakeholders to appreciate and understand the alternative perspectives in order to enhance the effectiveness of the food risk process.
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Energy policy options—from the perspective of public attitudes and risk perceptions
TL;DR: Viklund et al. as discussed by the authors investigated the relationship between attitudes towards electricity saving and electricity saving behavior in Sweden and found that perceived risk was an important predictor of these attitudes and it was concluded that it is important to investigate factors behind this variable.
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Applied Regression Analysis: Draper/Applied Regression Analysis
Norman R. Draper,Harry Smith +1 more
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How safe is safe enough? a psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated an alternative technique, in which psychometric procedures were used to elicit quantitative judgments of perceived risk, acceptable risk, and perceived benefit for each of 30 activities and technologies.
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Facts and Fears: Understanding Perceived Risk
TL;DR: In this article, the similarities and differences between lay and expert evaluations are examined in the context of a specific set of activities and technologies, including the difficulty of reconciling divergent opinions about risk, the possible irrelevance of voluntariness as a determinant of acceptable risk, and the importance of catastrophic potential in determing perceptions and triggering social conflict.
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Rating the Risks
TL;DR: A risk assessment industry has developed over the last decade which combines the efforts of physical, biological, and social scientists in an attempt to identify hazards and measure the frequency and magnitude of their consequences.