Erroneous Risk Assessment and Mitigation #0: Overview

It will help for you to review all the positive posts on Risk Assessment: Go to the blog homepage: http://youthministryhints.blogspot.com go down the right hand side to the list of topics and select “Risk.”
Sometimes risk assessment or mitigation is done incorrectly. Sometimes we are mistaken, sometimes we are influenced by myth, urban legend, or misinformation, sometimes we are pressured by others because of myth, urban legend, or misinformation. It is important to know what is right, even if you cannot go with it. Sometimes we have to accept a dumb idea...
Anyway, the subsequent posts on this subject will be looking at common mistakes:

1. Bad or ignored statistics. Impossible or improbable vs probable or likely
2. Sleight-of-hand. Watching the wrong issue or variable.
3. All or nothing. Ignoring or not implementing mitigation.
4. Myth or urban legend