The Norm Chronicles (49 page)

National,
see
National Lottery

US Mega-millions
134

M

mammography
263

MAPPA
38

marathon
179

Maserati, winning
137

McCartney, Paul
280

measles

numbers of cases
69

risk
65

meat

red
186

risk
43

memory
270

Mercury
64

Mesothelioma
201

meteorite, landing on Comette family
216

Micro-sievert
208

Microlife, definition
183

Microlives

alcohol
189

chart
189

cigarettes
189

exercise
190

fruit and veg
190

mammography
263

overweight
190

radiation
211

table of various
294

unemployment
232

value of
192

Micromort accidents
57

Afghanistan
17

anaesthetic
17
,
253

asteroid
221

base-jumping
178

bomber
17

child accidents
55

coal mining
198

commercial fishing
199

commercial flights
172

daily
15

definition
15

employees international
197

employees
197

general aviation
173

hospital stay
253

illegal drugs
103

in childbirth
123
,
127

infant mortality
23
,
26

marathon
179

mountaineering
177

murder
246

by age
36

roads
165

roads international
169

scuba-diving
178

skydive
178

table
18

table of various
291

train
164

transport
16
,
58

value
18

MicroNot
46

Millennium Development Goals
28

Milli-sievert
208

Milne, A. A.
190

Minimax regret
56

Minor Planet Center
109
,
218

Mitchell and Webb
42

MMR vaccine
68

mobile phones
208

money
268
–75

moral panic
39

Morphine
97

mortality

at work
197

drowning
55

external causes
15

falls from ladders
9

from asbestos
201

heart disease
9

illegal drugs
103

in childbirth
123

infant
23

maternal
123

maternal in Vienna
125

murder
36

news stories
50

rail international
164

risk and rate
257

roads
168

roads international
169

statistics
4

strangulation
60

mountaineering
176

murder

in London
240

risk
35
–7
246

N

Nanny state
60

nanotechnology
111

narrative
see
stories

NASA, satellite
216

National Lottery

as gambling
134

buying all tickets
130

coincidence
77

distribution of numbers
154

winning £100,000
137

National Risk Register
115

National Transportation Safety Board
172

natural hazards
115

natural/unnatural risk
29

Near Earth Object (NEO)
217

New York State hospitals
257

NICE
115
192

Nightingale, Florence
254

nothing/non-events
40
–51

Nun, Singing
102

Nutt, David
104

O

Oettinger, Gunther
212

old age
271

care costs
274

examples
278

quality of life
283

One Million Random Digits
154

Opium
97

optimism bias
92

over-diagnosis, from screening
263

overweight
190

P

parachutes
177

Pascal, Blaise
133
,
267

penguins
108

phobia
270

Plane Crash Info
171

plane crashes

causes
172

general aviation
173

when occur
172

planning fallacy
92

Plath, Sylvia
121

playground safety
60

poisson distribution
240

possible futures metaphor
290

poverty

different households
273

pensioners
272

pregnancy

chances
86

teenage
89

with contraception
88

probability

and consequence
54
,
83
,
115
,
231
,
289

and personal experience
85
,
270

and randomness
155

as reasonable betting odds
288

does not exist
5
,
288

meaning
10
,
287

of dying first
188

prostate cancer
264

Prostate Specific Antigen test (PSA)
264

Public Information films
84

Puerperal fever
124

quantum mechanics
155

Q

Quetelet, Adolphe
142
,
153
,
254

R

radiation
204
–12

radithor
207

Radon
207

RAF Bomber Command
17

Rail Safety Standards Board
164

Reichelt, Franz
177

relative risk
14
,
44

resilience
62

reporting bias
50

retirement
271

rickets
62

risk

absolute
14
,
44

acute
vs
chronic
183

aversion
60
,
61

and benefit
127

changing perception of
161

communication
117

compensation
192

does not exist independently
286

dread
206

homeostasis
167

images (or pictures) of
83
,
171

involuntary
206

perception driven by values
111

perception in sports
180

relative
14
,
44

tolerable
202

unacceptable
202

road accidents, children
56

roads
165
–70

Roulette
135

Russian Roulette
17
,
18

S

salience
35
,
49

satellites, coming to earth
222

sausages, risk
14

school trips
62

screening
260
–67

scuba-diving
178

security

airport
262

lie detectors
261

selective samples
85

Semmelweis, Ignaz
124

seriality
76

sex
82
–93

sexually transmitted infection (STI)
86

Shipman, Harold
102
,
239

Sievert
208

skiing
2

sky-dive
284

risk
144

Slovic, Paul
49
,
127
,
208
,
237

smallpox
66

social control
101

social norms
99

societal concerns
202

space
213
–24

space-junk
222

spike, in steering wheel
167

sports, accidents
179

Standardised Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI)
258

statins
47

still-births
25

stories
4
,
65
,
266
,
195

and coincidence
81

definition of
6

detail in
80
,
238

contrasted to non-events
48

in scenario planning
227

crime in the media
236

and truth
239

and patterns
243

medical narrative
251
,
261

see also
anecdote

strangulation, child risk
60

sudden infant deaths
26

Surfers Against Sewage
180