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When the risk consequence is death, we can define a micromort as one microprobability of death.
Microrisks for Medical Decision Analysis Ronald A. Howard 2023
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One interesting and useful way is to use the “micromort” – a one-in-a-million chance of death – as a unit of risk to help with comparisons between risky events.
What's most likely to kill you? Measuring how deadly our daily activities are Hassan Vally 2022
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She used a standard unit of risk known as a micromort, which represents a one-in-a-million chance of dying.
Is Covid More Dangerous Than Driving? How Scientists Are Parsing Covid Risks. By 2022
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One micromort equals a one in a million chance of sudden death.
Crunching the Numbers on Mortality Nick Routley 2019
alexz commented on the word micromort
"the amount of risk equal to 1 in 1 million chance of dying"
- seen on Vsauce's risk video.
term conceived by Ronald A Howard
March 23, 2014