We Need A Standard Unit Of Measure For Risk
More than three decades ago a Stanford professor proposed a uniform way of expressing your odds of dying from a specific cause: the micromort. It’s time it went mainstream.
«unit of measurement like the micromort is fundamentally personal in nature: it’s the threat faced by a single person over a specific period»
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