Trust, risk and experts

Philosopher's Zone

English - July 18, 2021 07:30 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 155 ratings
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Public trust in experts is on the wane. And when we consider that a key role of experts is the assessment and management of risk, this mistrust becomes worrying, given that life in an industrialised technology-driven world keeps getting riskier by the day. How should experts communicate risk? and what kind of trust should we place in them?