Chandler makes many good points about why people avoid dealing with
risk management. My favorite is this one:
- People still can’t get their head around the idea of probability.
Why is it that they can understand that there’s a 25% chance of rain tomorrow or how much they stand to gain on a $2 ticket if their horse in the third race wins at 11-1, but not that there is a high likelihood that the critical vulnerability they refuse to patch will get worm’ed?— Reasons not to manage risk, by Chandler Howell, Not Bad for a Cubicle, May 15th, 2007
Because they’re getting paid now and they don’t think ahead?