How You Are “Unlikely” to Die

In my presentation on risk, I discuss how we all focus on the wrong things: We fear large, emotional, visceral — and statistically improbable deaths. We ignore the boring mundane, and statistically likely — demises.

This chart via The Economist does a wonderful job of putting the same idea into proper context:

 


Source: The Economist

 

Thanks, Chris!

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