Perceptions of risk by automobile accidents.
all want to write about risks. Comment or conceptualize about an issue that gave rise to studies of CTS in the 60 and 70 of the last century in the United States. The nuclear accident at Three Mile Island in 1979, encourages laymen to laymen and not subjective or objective study of the impacts of old and new technologies. Born-governmental organizations and non-governmental, academic and nonacademic groups, websites, magazines and thousands of articles and publications about risk. There is even talk of the science of risk.
risk is studied from different disciplines. Technical or engineering approach based his studies in logic and mathematical structures, sociologists speak of social constructs, psychologists are concerned with the problem of perception and social representation, the influence of cultural anthropologists and philosophers of epistemology and ontology risk.
Risk From this corner, we will discuss about some of the hundreds of risks that are of concern to the general public, and other little known or poorly disseminated, that deserve our attention or which we ignore that we live with them. The American philosopher Larry Laudan first rule is to address the risk: "Everything is Risk" rule that is reflected in today's enterprises in implementing their risk management systems, "the risks are managed not eliminated."
output in the first corner, we will approach the risk associated with automobile accidents. I clearly from my technical approach, the risk is not an accident, is the probability of loss of lives, injuries, wounds or bruises, or the probability of loss of property caused by car accidents. People say the car, not the accident.
The first risk has been the subject of many studies looking for causes and in developing strategies to minimize them, but despite the many strategies used, their size does not decrease. Statistics of traffic accidents around the world prove it. In Britain, the use of seat belts reduced the mortality rate for drivers, but the number of traffic accidents and deaths of passengers and pedestrians.
According to statistics, car accidents are increasing, and by the force of impacts, children are suffering the more serious consequences. In the Together was recorded in 1985, an average of 45,000 deaths from motor vehicle accidents, higher than the dead of the recent earthquake in Pakistan or the equivalent of 120 passenger plane crashed every day for a year.
In 2000, 1.2 million children women and men were killed worldwide in traffic accidents. Moreover, current statistics published by the Pan American
In the U.S., most motorized society in the world, car accidents are the third leading cause of death for all ages, down from heart disease and cancer, according
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Paul Slovic, a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and author of "risk perception", says that the average car trip is
The public, says Slovic, who smokes billion cigarettes a year, prohibits an artificial sweetener because a person in a million may develop a cancer, the same public who consume foods high in fat, cities inhabited by millions of high seismic risk areas is the same that prevents the ocean for fear of sharks and cold sweats mounted on an airplane.
Slovic has conducted through questionnaires applied directly to the people coming to the general opinion about risk. Characterized these risks by using various attributes (controllability, novelty, knowledge, catastrophic potential, impact, etc..). The methodology is known as the "psychometric paradigm", which assumes that individuals understand the risk from a subjective, influenced by a wide range of psychological, social, institutional and cultural. The paradigm states that appropriate design of the survey instrument, many of these factors and their correlations can be quantified and modeling to better understand individuals and their attitudes towards the risks they face.
From these studies from the psychological approach, we conclude that the public perception of risk differs from that perceived by the experts. Experts are based in the statistics while the lay public does not, do so according to subjective factors such as individual risk control, time and place of occurrence of risk, the general fear of catastrophic effect of certain risks such as accidents aircraft or a nuclear plant.
A survey in the city of Baltimore is not far from the perception of risk in other cities. In this survey relate only 30 of the many risks they are exposed. For experts, the risk that comes first is that associated with motor vehicle crashes, while for the public, is the risk posed by nuclear power plants. Significant differences were observed in the classification of the risks involved in practicing some sports.
Finally, we can conclude: "We, the general public, we are irrational and uninformed about the risk. We do not understand or care about the statistics "
