"The Science of Fear" - How the Media Wants You to be AfraidSubmitted by Elteto on Tue, 07/08/2008 - 22:00 |
There is often more smoke than fire...
Do you realize that despite the recent campus shooting, a college student is 75 times more likely to be killed off-campus? Or that the most recent suicide bombing in the U. S. was carried out by an American? A psychologist shows that once the death toll in an incident reaches just two, people start caring less. Breast cancer is most likely to strike over 80 years of age. Read about these and other similar issues the media hypes up, and take the quiz to see how much you actually believe.