Try a sports metaphor, Paul Slovic urges psychology graduate students learning about risk assessment at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
There are umpires who say, “I call them as I see them,” and others who say, “I call them as they are,” he tells the students.
In his classes, Slovic, who is president of the firm Decision Research in Eugene, as well as a psychology professor, has expanded the umping metaphor first suggested by late Stanford psychologist Amos Tversky.
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