[WikiEN-l] Admin burnout

[Ray Saintonge]

Guy Chapman aka JzG wrote:

>"Thomas Dalton" wrote:
>  
>
>>>And the values of both are culturally constructed (i.e. arbitrary) as
>>>is the balance between them.  I know one of the more prominent risk
>>>theorists, he has a hard time getting people to accept the validity of
>>>the concept of plain bad luck.
>>>      
>>>
>>Exactly - that cultural construction is what people are talking about
>>when they say someone is more or less risk-averse than someone else.
>>    
>>
>Up to a point.  There are two issues: first, the /value/ of risk and
>the /value/ of reward are subjective; second, the perceived /balance/
>between them differs.  
>
>To say that different individuals are more or less risk averse is only
>half the story - they may be identically risk averse but have formed
>different judgments of the value of risk in a given context.
>
"Plain bad luck" in our context means that there may be instances where 
we will be sued no matter what we do.

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