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People will overestimate the risks
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because shark attacks are very salient.
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They are always reported in the news and they're very interesting.
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What is the chance of getting killed by potato salad?
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Well, food poisoning, death by food poisoning,
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injury by food poisoning runs to about one in fifty-five,
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one in 800 for some sort of injury
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and one in 55,000 killed.
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Potato salad is 1,000 more times more dangerous
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than shark attacks.
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But you get it wrong because you don't think,
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"Oh, my God, big news story.