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LESSON 3 · Outsmart Your Own Biases

PAUSE TO THINK

How did fear of flying after the 9/11 attacks end up costing lives?

Road deaths rose

Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer estimated that the shift from planes to cars in the year after the attacks led to roughly 1,500 additional road deaths. Avoiding the vivid danger pushed people toward a statistically deadlier one.

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