06-17-2019, 02:28 PM
I'm sure 99% are local violence that inversely correlates with socioeconomic status, but a couple deaths don't make a trend.
This is a really good book I'm currently reading related to our inherent bias to overvalue stuff like this - https://amzn.to/31Cqmgz
I get asked all the time about the dangers of travel, with the suggestion we're placing ourselves unnecessarily in the way of harm. The tl;dr of this book is first world people tend to think in "us vs. them" and are really, really bad at conceptualizing actual indicators of poor conditions.
This is a really good book I'm currently reading related to our inherent bias to overvalue stuff like this - https://amzn.to/31Cqmgz
I get asked all the time about the dangers of travel, with the suggestion we're placing ourselves unnecessarily in the way of harm. The tl;dr of this book is first world people tend to think in "us vs. them" and are really, really bad at conceptualizing actual indicators of poor conditions.
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"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth
"Here, at last, is the cure for texting while driving. The millions of deaths which occur every year due to the iPhone’s ability to stream the Kim K/Ray-J video in 4G could all be avoided, every last one of them, if the government issued everyone a Seventies 911 and made sure they always left the house five minutes later than they’d wanted to. It would help if it could be made to rain as well. Full attention on the road. Guaranteed." -Jack Baruth