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Answer 1

What are 3 causes of death where the population's concern is too high, relative to the actual risk of that cause

Causes       Acutal       Google
Sucide       1.8%       12.4%
Diabetes   3.8%       8.9%
Terroism   0.01%       7.2%

What are 3 causes where NY times news reporting is too low, relative to the actual risk?

Causes               Acutal       NY
Lower Respiratory diseases   7.6%       0.01%
Road incident: fall, accide   7.6%       1.9%
Heart Disease           30.2%       2.5%

What is the ratio between the level of (homicide + terroism) and the reporting level?

Acutal = 0.5%
google = 10.4%
NYT = 58.4%

Can that bais partly explain the low searches for Heart Diseases? Explain
Yes it can explain the bais. In acutal causes of death is 30.3% but in the google searches it is about 2%. People are aware about heart diseases and that it is a potential threat to life but it has been taken for granted as a known fact.

Compare the gray category, road incident + falls, accidents between the first 2 columns

Acutal : 7.0%
Google : 10.7%

There is about a 3% difference between the two.

What might be the purpose of creating this graph? How could you use it in a talk with newspaper editors?
This graph might be used to show how the truth picture is manipulated by the media induce fear about the various factors for death which might not really be the main causes for death.

We can show this graph to editor portary a pattern as to how sensentational news of death due to rare events is made a major fator for death and cause anxiety among readers.

After your talk the NYT newspaper editors explain we just report what people are interest in?
How can you use this figure to refute their points.

We can show this graph to editor portary a pattern as to how sensentational news of death due to rare events is made a major fator for death and cause anxiety among readers