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PRA - Public's Risk Assessment on Safety
In article , rk wrote:
I read these numbers in USA Today, found them kind of surprising: The public accepts some risk that astronauts will die. Only 17% considered any shuttle accidents "unacceptable." Slightly fewer than half, 43%, said they would accept one accident every 100 flights; 32% said they would accept an accident every 50 missions or fewer. Two shuttles have crashed in 113 flights. This is much less risk adverse than I thought. It's surprising to me, certainly... Does anyone know, as a reference, if similar polls were carried out over the past thirty, forty years? I'd be interested to see what the public thought circa 1983 or 1968... -- -Andrew Gray |
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