Against the De Minimis Principle.
De minimis
rational decision making
risk
Journal
Risk analysis : an official publication of the Society for Risk Analysis
ISSN: 1539-6924
Titre abrégé: Risk Anal
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8109978
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
05 2020
05 2020
Historique:
received:
21
08
2019
revised:
22
12
2019
accepted:
27
12
2019
pubmed:
21
1
2020
medline:
21
1
2020
entrez:
21
1
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
According to the class of de minimis decision principles, risks can be ignored (or at least treated very differently from other risks) if the risk is sufficiently small. In this article, we argue that a de minimis threshold has no place in a normative theory of decision making, because the application of the principle will either recommend ignoring risks that should not be ignored (e.g., the sure death of a person) or it cannot be used by ordinary bounded and information-constrained agents.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31958149
doi: 10.1111/risa.13445
pmc: PMC7317961
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
908-914Subventions
Organisme : Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Pays : International
Informations de copyright
© 2020 The Authors. Risk Analysis published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Risk Analysis.
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