Why this website???- Living is a risky business.
And we humans are naturally risk-adverse — this behavior strategy has help our species survive and become dominant.
- Consideration of risk is often manifested by a vague reluctance or fear.
Awareness of risk s well ingrained in us; so well ingrained that we are often, perhaps most of the time, unaware that we are considering a given risk.
- We do not have good means to compare risks in a useful way.
We are surrounded by information about many different types of risks but this information is presented in a way that makes it too hard to easily compare various risks in a meaningful way,
- This website is the tool to enable you to compare risks.
The approach here is to restate risks in terms of the probability relative to a consistent reference. The enables one to assess the risk of various phenomena or threats that we are faced with during the course of our lives by comparing the relative likelihood with many other risks for which we have developed a feeling for how they can affect our lives.
How Risk Comparisons are added to this website.Risk comparisons are added as the publisher becomes aware of good sources of data from sources that are objective, in the public domain, have been vetted by a review process (including public exposure for comment), and have primary source references that can be accessed by visitors to this website.
Updated: 29 December 2015