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'Choose the yum and risk the yuk?' (轉載並翻譯)

看到小小學妹機器人貼的聯結, 開啟後看到文章為機率與數理統計大師 Professor David Spiegelhalter OBE FRS 所著,內容又是關於現在的工作, 忍不住的往下看。順手也就翻了一下。寫的同不同意就先不管了。 By David Spiegelhalter Professor of Risk Understanding, University of Cambridge 題目: 'Choose the yum and risk the yuk?' Do you waver as you reach for that bacon sarnie or glass of wine? Science tells us these things can be bad for us in excess. But in this week's Scrubbing Up health column, risk expert David Spiegelhalter, says even those habits linked to risk can have benefits - and maybe people should be a little easier on themselves. I own up. I am a serial risk taker. I live in a flood zone, cycle without a helmet, drink alcohol and on Sunday I had bacon for breakfast. I know that this is hardly Formula 1 racing, but reading the papers might suggest otherwise. When the advice from cancer experts for avoiding bowel cancer is "try to avoid processed meats such as bacon, ham, salami, corned beef and some sausages", and women