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the researchers have focused on risk preference or aversion, and the possibility that it might be measurable and compared to others, offering a scale of sorts.
To learn more about how eager people are to engage in risky behavior, the researchers enlisted the assistance of 1500 volunteer adults to take a series of tests (39 tests in all), which together were meant to gauge a person's desire to seek out risky behavior. The team then analyzed the data and found that 61 percent of the variation in risky behavior scores could be summed up with a single component—a person's risk preference quotient, if you will. The remaining factors could all be attributed to which particular type of risk was involved. The single component, which the team dubbed as R, is general, the team notes, which suggests it can be applied multiple to[sic] risk situations along with other factors attributable to a particular type of risk.
The top level in intelligence quotient is called, "genius." Should the top level in risk quotient be called, "Hey Y'all, hold my beer?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday October 08 2017, @12:40PM
I disagree with this. The optimum choice is usually to stand your ground, keep your cool and attempt to verbally diffuse the situation. Good natured humour, politeness and authoritative body language are the best defensive weapons you have. If you back down you cede control and that is never a winning strategy against an aggressor. I worked as a bar manager to pay my way through college and my responsibility there extended to the customers, backing down was always the more risky option.