> I think it's a stretch to say that humans can do fairly well at risk management and cost-benefit analyses; My stated caveat is that risk assessment works "fa

> I think it's a stretch to say that humans can do fairly well at risk management and cost-benefit analyses; My stated caveat is that risk assessment works "fairly well for normal life tasks". People decide to travel in cars and fly and do all sorts of things involving non-zero risk and make fairly reasonable decisions. It's once media influence arrives (Covid!, climate change!, guns!, etc) that peoples' perceptions about actual risk for hot button issues can be warped.