The Science of Fear: Why We Fear the Things We Shouldn't--And Put Ourselves in Greater Danger by Dan Gardner

Author:Dan Gardner [Gardner, Dan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Science, Philosophy, Politics, Non-Fiction, Psychology, Sociology, Business
ISBN: 9780525950622
Goodreads: 3242100
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Published: 2008-07-17T10:00:00+00:00

From this perspective, it makes perfect sense that stories about breast cancer routinely feature young women, even though most women with breast cancer are old. It’s a simple reflection of our feelings: It may be sad when an eighty-five-year-old woman loses her life to cancer, but it is tragic when the same happens to a young woman. Whether these contrasting valuations are philosophically defensible is irrelevant. This is how we feel, all of us. That includes the reporters, who find themselves moved by the mother of young children dying of breast cancer or the man consigned to a wheelchair by West Nile virus, and are convinced by what they feel that this is a great story that should be the focus of the report. The statistics may say these cases are wildly unrepresentative, but given a choice between a powerful personal story and some numbers on a chart, reporters will go with the story. They’re only human.

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