(top) Reaction time vs. difference between acute deterioration risk of reference condition (prostate cancer) and various conditions. (bottom). Risk perception and spatial response are clearly related.

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How is it that two people can see the same thing and have a completely different understanding of what happened? Two leaders can look at the same numbers, hear the same news or face the same challenge ...