He reports that Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, issues "speeding tickets" to employees who break its rules.Mr Johnson is the first to admit that this approach is too risky for data that are very valuable or the release of which could cause a lot of damage.
In the end, any one, or even two, of these issues might be surmountable -- but all together, they may just present too risky a data set for use.
The attitude towards risk was evaluated by collecting risky behaviors data, by the subject's self-evaluation, and through lottery games.
In order to evaluate model accuracy when predicting a risky zone, the data collected was randomly divided into two sets: a training set (70% of the data points) used to build the model, and a test set (30% of the data points) to assess the accuracy of the model when dealing with unknown data.
Such comparisons are risky, since the data include homes of different sizes in different markets.
It also looks increasingly risky after preliminary data from the International Air Transport Association showed an "alarming" contraction in global passenger and cargo traffic in September.
Investing in emerging markets is inherently risky: macroeconomic and accounting data may be misleading, political and banking systems are not always stable, and exchange rates may fluctuate.
But Medicis, the distributor of Restylane, sent out a warning letter last month to thousands of doctors, contending that the giveaway program is risky and that any data it collected would be biased and unscientific.
Storing confidential information outside (datacenter) makes the data center risky in terms of the infringement of privacy and security.
The coefficient of variation (CV) has been advocated as a measure of risk sensitivity in meta-analyses of data for risky choices by animals and humans.
