 Small Group Studies of Regulatory Decision‐Making for Power‐Frequency Electric and Magnetic FieldsGordon Hester, M. Granger Morgan, Indira Nair and Keith Florig Risk Analysis, 1990, vol. 10, issue 2, 213-227 Abstract: Three groups of lay opinion leaders were used in a group role‐playing decision exercise designed to explore problems in public risk management decision‐making. The application domain was possible risks from the 60 Hz electric and magnetic fields associated with high‐voltage power transmission lines. While there were differences in the make‐up and dynamics of the three groups, the structure and substantive content of the tasks undertaken dominated intergroup variation in terms of the factors that were most important to group members' decisions. The groups displayed sophistication in their identification of decision attributes and in many of the arguments they advanced, but experienced difficulties in structuring and making trade‐offs and decisions. The groups were not good at normalizing or otherwise manipulating quantitative information, and used it largely in the form it was received. Upper‐bound risk estimates were treated operationally in most group discussions as expected values. Several kinds of strong framing effects were observed in the use of cost and risk information. Specific quantitative results obtained must be treated with care but may provide a starting place for further work on the acceptable level of transmission line risk. Date: 1990 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wly:riskan:v:10:y:1990:i:2:p:213-227 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Risk Analysis from John Wiley & Sons |
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