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you focus on the people who will die
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and, instead of focusing on the chance that nobody will die
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and the chance that everybody will die,
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you'd flip it around,
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you get a corresponding flip.
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And this is known as a "framing effect."
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The idea of a framing effect is
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that you could respond differently
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to a situation depending on how the options are framed.
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And, in particular,
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this combines with "loss aversion."
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People hate a certain loss.