RE: routing risks to the people who need to see them: if your great aunt bertha is worried that you'll get killed by a grizzly bear because you're visiting Yosemite in a month, I'm hoping you would route the "risk of being killed by a bear" page to her. Numbers might not convince her... but I think they will sway some people.
RE: costs: good idea. If you like, you can create an account and add cost information to the ER visit page-- dollars or hours. Or maybe create a sub-page with dollar/time costs, since those might vary a lot by country or state or city.
RE: different dimensions: if a risk is controversial, I'll be encouraging page authors to include multiple risk models and present worst case / best case estimates to users. I can't solve the problem of no data being available for some dimension of a risk (but that could be modeled, too-- just use a very wide min/max estimate).
RE: trust: It's the Wikipedia model. Pure peer-review, with open editing. That seems to work about as well as anything else that has been tried up to this point in history.
And I'm curious about what the better way of disseminating information is!
Thanks for taking the time to comment!
RE: routing risks to the people who need to see them: if your great aunt bertha is worried that you'll get killed by a grizzly bear because you're visiting Yosemite in a month, I'm hoping you would route the "risk of being killed by a bear" page to her. Numbers might not convince her... but I think they will sway some people.
RE: costs: good idea. If you like, you can create an account and add cost information to the ER visit page-- dollars or hours. Or maybe create a sub-page with dollar/time costs, since those might vary a lot by country or state or city.
RE: different dimensions: if a risk is controversial, I'll be encouraging page authors to include multiple risk models and present worst case / best case estimates to users. I can't solve the problem of no data being available for some dimension of a risk (but that could be modeled, too-- just use a very wide min/max estimate).
RE: trust: It's the Wikipedia model. Pure peer-review, with open editing. That seems to work about as well as anything else that has been tried up to this point in history.
And I'm curious about what the better way of disseminating information is!