Risk Assessment

摘要

Risk assessment is a contentious subject combining the disparate and difficult disciplines of mathematics and paranoia. When I proposed to the editors that I write a column on the true risks of various potential personal and global catastrophes, pointing out my impressive qualifications in abnormal psychology and mathematics, they counter-proposed that I survey Web Techniques readers on the subject. (The exact phrasing was, "The average joe on the street probably knows as much as you do about this stuff, Mike.")