Baruch Fischhoff
Baruch Fischhoff
Baruch Fischhoff is a distinguished academic and the Howard Heinz University Professor of both Departments of Social and Decision Sciences and Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University and is one of the proponents of Risk perception studies with his numerous academic books and articles on risk analysis/communication and human behavior...
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With things of a human origin, it's harder to objectively figure out the probabilities. To the best of my knowledge, people are not doing credible analysis on the risks facing this country, and if they were, who's to know that those are static probabilities?
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You really can encourage people to behave in certain ways. But if we have plans that depend on human behavior, they ought to be realistic.