The discussion here is interesting. One of the reasons I hardly ever submit Wikipedia articles to Hacker News is that very few Wikipedia articles have gone thro

The discussion here is interesting. One of the reasons I hardly ever submit Wikipedia articles to Hacker News is that very few Wikipedia articles have gone through enough thorough editing to be worth discussing among the professionally edited sources submitted here. I'll note for the record, as a Wikipedian, that the article talk page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Micromort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Micromort for the article kindly submitted here suggests that the article still needs A LOT of work (as most Wikipedia articles doe) and that some of the statements now in the article may be flat wrong, misrepresenting the micromort concept as it was pioneered by Ronald A. Howard. See his presentation on microrisk analysis http://ise.tamu.edu/isen627/Slides/25%20Life%20and%20Death.pdf http://ise.tamu.edu/isen627/Slides/25%20Life%20and%20Death.p... for a possibly more sophisticated, exact, and accurate view of the issue. The online mathematics lesson "Understanding uncertainty: Small but lethal" http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue55/features/risk/index http://plus.maths.org/content/os/issue55/features/risk/index is also good for practicing understanding of micromorts.