Ep.46 Is risk compensation a real thing?

Topics:

Defining risk compensation. Risk compensation in road traffic. Argument by analogy. What causes people to believe in risk compensation. Why robust data equals a real effect. Practical takeaways.

Quotes:

“…I think this is the sort of phenomenon that causes people to believe in risk compensation.”

“Basically, what they’re saying is, if there was a real effect, it would be robust regardless of how you crunched the data.”

“Just because someone does lots of citing of literature or quotes from scientific literature, doesn’t mean that their interpretation of that literature is rigorous and scientific.”