Does fear of sharks keep you out of ocean? Did worry about swine flu keep you in the house for weeks on end? Karen Weintraub, writing in the Boston Globe, has a few words of advice. No they’re not “stop worrying.” They’re “start worrying about things you should worry about.” Humans, it turns out, are very bad at assessing risk, despite the flood of information about just about everything. So instead of dreading a shark attack, beachgoers would do better to worry about skin cancer from an overdose of rays. And instead of fretting about viruses, we might pay a little more attention to the calories we put in our mouths.
Want more to worry about? Or not worry about? Read more in the Boston Globe.