Ken Kolosh on the difficulty in assessing risk

Human beings, we just are not good at estimating our own risk.  We tend to fixate or focus on the rare, startling event, like a plane crash or a major flood or a natural disaster, but in reality, when you look at the numbers, the everyday risks that we face and have become so accustomed to form a much greater hazard.

~ Ken Kolosh, manager of statistics at the National Safety Council, "Opioids, Car Crashes and Falling: The Odds of Dying in the U.S.," The New York Times, January 14, 2019

Americans are more likely to die of an opioid overdose than a car crash.