6/24/2023 0 Comments Steven pinker progress![]() ![]() (Bees kill more Americans every year than do ISIS, sharks, scorpions, alligators, bears, and airplanes combined). The list of things more likely to kill Americans, however, fills up notepads and includes everything from a flight of stairs to a swarm of bees. Yet of all 2016 campaign issues, a majority of voters on both sides said “terrorism and national security” was their largest concern. The odds, for instance, that an American will die in a terrorist incident is about 1 in 3.3 million. This hardwiring, however, makes for terrible risk calculation. ![]() Pinker suspects your latter list will be longer since these include the things that can actually hurt us, it makes sense for our emotions to be tuned toward the negative, says Pinker. To understand why, you need only make two lists: one of every glorious thing that could transpire on a typical day, and the other of every bad, nasty inconvenience. ![]()
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