Adults Perceptions of Risk in the Big Data Era

Title
Adults Perceptions of Risk in the Big Data Era
Publication Date
2015
Author(s)
Prodromou, Theodosia
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0685-7756
Email: tprodrom@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:tprodrom
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
University of Montana
Place of publication
United States of America
DOI
10.54870/1551-3440.1353
UNE publication id
une:17795
Abstract
The present digital era has seen rapid growth in the availability of big data; we were curious about whether such availability of data changes perceptions and assessments of risk. In this paper, we investigate adults' (35-63 years old) perceptions of risk in the big-data era and how it figures in their everyday life. We developed decision-making scenarios for socio-economic, environmental and health topics that involve modelling with personal value systems alongside Gapminder word map data. Going beyond the idea of risk in statistical theory, we attempt to gain an understanding of the processes by which adults assess risks.
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Citation
The Mathematics Enthusiast, 12(1), p. 364-377
ISSN
1551-3440
Start page
364
End page
377

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