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Perceived Risks Versus Actual Risks: Managing Hazards Through Negotiation, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette
Perceived Risks Versus Actual Risks: Managing Hazards Through Negotiation, Kristin S. Shrader-Frechette
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
The author describes what she calls the "Expert-Judgment Strategy", finding that, because it discounts lay perceptions of Risk, it interferes with the acceptance of important but Risky technologies.
Scientific Method, Anti-Foundationalism, And Public Decision-Making, Kristin Shrader-Frechette
Scientific Method, Anti-Foundationalism, And Public Decision-Making, Kristin Shrader-Frechette
RISK: Health, Safety & Environment (1990-2002)
An examination of the legitimacy of attacks on lay assessments of environmental or other technological Risk. The case is made that rational policy requires an epistemology in which what we believe about Risk is bootstrapped onto how we should act concerning Risk.