| Contact Mary Bryant, RiskWorld staff, e-mail bryant@tec-com.com. |
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by Arnold Barnett. The statistics that fill the media are often subtly misleading. Here's a guide to the most common types of errors. Illustrations by Tamar Haber-Schaim. (Posted November 1995.) |
| http://web.mit.edu/afs/athena/org/t/techreview/www/articles/oct94/barnett.html |
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Edited by Kenneth R.Foster, David E. Bernstein, and Peter W. Huber, Copyright 1993, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Phantom risks are risks whose very existence is unproven and perhaps unprovable, yet they raise real problems at the interface of science and the law. Phantom Risk surveys a dozen scientific issues that have lead to public controversy and litigation -- among them, miscarriage from the use of video display terminals, birth defects in children whose mothers use the drug Bendectin, (see Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals) and cancer from low-intensity magnetic fields and from airborne asbestos. It presents the scientific evidence behind these and other issues and summarizes the resulting litigation. (Posted November 1995.) |
| http://khht.com/huber/pha/pha.html |
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David J. Llewellyn, a doctoral researcher in the psychology of risk taking at the University of Strathclyde, has developed a Web site that provides general readers with an introduction to the psychology of risk-taking behavior and a scientific explanation of why people take risks with their health and engage in high risk sports. The site explores behaviors that seem to disregard the fundamental need for safety and offers specialized support for psychologists. (Posted February 2003.) |
| http://www.risktaking.co.uk/ |
| Social Context and Responses to Risk (SCARR) Network |
| Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, which is the United Kingdom's leading agency for funding research and training in social and economic issues, ESRC's priority network SCARR aims to clarify understanding of risk and of responses to it, to contribute to cross-disciplinary theoretical development, to produce new knowledge of value to public policy-makers, and to generate good opportunities for researchers to engage with users. SCARR began working in October 2003 to achieve its goals through new research and policy analysis, and working-groups on theory and methods, and dissemination activities including conferences, workshops and publications. The network brings together sociologists, psychologists, economists, experts on social policy, the media, socio-legal studies and law, and other social scientists from 14 universities in nine linked research projects that examine perceptions of and responses to risk in a range of areas in everyday life settings. The five-year projects are taking place at the universities of Kent, Bristol, Cardiff, East Anglia, Loughborough, Oxford, and York and at the University College London and the London School of Economics and Political Science. (Posted August 2004.) |
| http://www.kent.ac.uk/scarr/ |
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