How safe is safe enough? A psychometric study of attitudes towards technological risks and benefits

Policy Sciences - Tập 9 Số 2 - Trang 127-152 - 1978
Baruch Fischhoff1, Paul Slovic1, Sarah Lichtenstein1, Stephen Read2, Barbara Harris Combs3
1Decision Research, A Branch of Perceptronics, Eugene, USA
2University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA
3University of Oregon, Oregon, USA

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