Michael Blastland
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“We don’t ‘see’ odds – how likely the thing is – we ‘see’ consequences. That’s what people would mean if they were to say ‘picture the risk’. They mean picture the worst that can happen.”
― The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers about Danger
― The Norm Chronicles: Stories and Numbers about Danger
“Pregnant women turn out to be a poor reflection of the prevalence of a sexually transmitted disease in the rest of the population because – guess what? – pregnant women have all had unprotected sex.”
― The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers
― The Tiger That Isn't: Seeing Through a World of Numbers
“John Comaroff, an anthropologist, has written that history is ‘any succession of rupturing events which together bring to recognition our misunderstandings and misrecognition of the present’.”
― The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets
― The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets
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