“More people are killed every year by pigs than by sharks, which shows you how good we are at evaluating risk.”

IT Conversations: Bruce Schneier, Schneier, Bruce, Doug Kaye, 2004-04-16 http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail119.html,
Human perception of reality, risk and terrorism

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