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  Risk Intuition

  Posted: August 6th, 2009, 5:08am CDT

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  People have a natural intuition about risk, and in many ways it's very good. It fails at times due to a variety of cognitive biases, but for normal risks that people regularly encounter, it works surprisingly well: often better than we give it credit for. This struck me as I listened to yet another conference presenter complaining about security awareness...