Shark Attacks

There's a serious mismatch, of course, between how afraid people are of sharks and how afraid we ought to be. I was a child in chicago in the nineteen forties during the poleo epidemic. We weren't allowed to go swimming because i thought it made us susceptible to poleo. So i never learned to swim very well, so i stay away from water. Sot: Our sense of risk is influenced by the direct experiences we have and the indirect experiences we have through media such as film or the news media.