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Informed choice or regulated risk?

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Johnson, FR; Fisher, A; Smith, VK; Desvousges, WH
Published in: Environment
January 1, 1988

This article reports some preliminary results of a recent social experiment designed to test the senstivity of people's responses to alternative presentations of the same facts about radon risks. Ethical issues enter the experiment in two ways. First, it was found that the way risk information is presented does matter and therefore involves ethical judgements. Second, ethical issues arose in the design of the social experiment itself. Discussed here are ways in which these two concerns limited the acceptable range and character of the experiment. -Authors

Duke Scholars

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Environment

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ISSN

0013-9157

Publication Date

January 1, 1988

Volume

30

Issue

4

Related Subject Headings

  • Environmental Sciences
 

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Johnson, F. R., Fisher, A., Smith, V. K., & Desvousges, W. H. (1988). Informed choice or regulated risk? Environment, 30(4). https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.1988.9928909
Johnson, F. R., A. Fisher, V. K. Smith, and W. H. Desvousges. “Informed choice or regulated risk?Environment 30, no. 4 (January 1, 1988). https://doi.org/10.1080/00139157.1988.9928909.
Johnson FR, Fisher A, Smith VK, Desvousges WH. Informed choice or regulated risk? Environment. 1988 Jan 1;30(4).
Johnson, F. R., et al. “Informed choice or regulated risk?Environment, vol. 30, no. 4, Jan. 1988. Scopus, doi:10.1080/00139157.1988.9928909.
Johnson FR, Fisher A, Smith VK, Desvousges WH. Informed choice or regulated risk? Environment. 1988 Jan 1;30(4).
Journal cover image

Published In

Environment

DOI

ISSN

0013-9157

Publication Date

January 1, 1988

Volume

30

Issue

4

Related Subject Headings

  • Environmental Sciences