On: Bike helmets: what the science says about an American safety obsession

[aksss]

Every expert would tell me not to ride a OneWheel at a high rate of speed. Doesn’t mean I won’t. Doesn’t mean I’d support city ordinances banning them. Risk evaluation is weird that way, and your answer will depend on your role in the conversation. What I would recommend for you may not be the best for me. So putting a pin in that, there are arguably more important considerations when evaluating the proposition that, “somebody should make a law”, than expert risk analysis for the genpop.

[tommiegannert → aksss]

> Risk evaluation is weird that way, and your answer will depend on your role in the conversation. What I would recommend for you may not be the best for me.

Asking the "why" one or two more levels, we end up in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimism_bias. Which suggests you should let someone else evaluate the risk to you.