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Are we focusing on the wrong risky things?

May 19, 202547 min
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Episode description

 We think we’ll win the lotto even though the odds are low— and that sums up just how wrong we are when we think about risk. Allie Volpe is a senior reporter at Vox. She joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the many ways we get risk management wrong, why data shows it is hindering younger generations from taking chances and ways we can manage anxiety over the things we can’t control. Her article is, “Plane crashes, pandemics, toxic spatulas. How do we live with so much risk?“ 

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