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Comment: the perils of qualitative smoking risk measures

✍ Scribed by W. Kip Viscusi

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
91 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0894-3257

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✦ Synopsis

Quantitative measures of smoking risks indicate substantial overassessment of these hazards. The qualitative risk measures developed by Slovic have no implications for either the direction or degree of perceptional bias. Qualitative risk questions also suer from the problem that respondents dier in terms of their reference point for what is risky and what agreement with qualitative risk statements implies about their objective risk beliefs. Meaningful objective risk measures imply that people overassess smoking risks.

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