Roxanne Jones: Risk perception is tricky, but we're not really bad at it. People of color and women perceive more risk in the world at large from accidental disasters than white men do. She says people are scared of what'swewe, what's advertised a lot; car crashes are barely reported. Jones: We don't perceive traffic crashes as risky because they aren't that dangerous.
Jessie Singer's new book There Are No Accidents has made a big splash in the road safety community and far beyond, by interrogating a word that makes most people nod and move on: "accident." On this week's episode, Singer joins Alex, Kirsten and Ed to discuss how she became fascinated with the word, the realities she discovered behind its bland façade, and what it all means.