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Stay on the couch or go for a run? There's an app that can calculate the bigger risk

  • Written by Hassan Vally, Senior Lecturer in Epidemiology, La Trobe University
imageWe know running is better for you than lounging but how might it affect our lifespan?Marcella Cheng/The Conversation, CC BY-ND

Humans are much worse at estimating risk than we think we are. While we overestimate the risk of rare but catastrophic occurrences, such as being attacked by a shark, many of us seriously underestimate the risk of...

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