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Remarkably, humans make many decisions with relatively little deliberation. Issues are routinely resolved with minimal effort, and include such diverse events as crossing the street, ordering from a menu, choosing a pair of socks, buying a house and selecting a spouse.
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The cumulative risk results from continuously adding the results in a distribution to yield the sum of all previous results. For example, if the probability of experiencing a disease based on the day of exposure is 10% on day one, 20% on day two, and 30% on day three, the cumulative risk is 10% on day one, 30% on day two, and 60% on day three.
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Young, C.S. (2019). Definitions and Basic Concepts. In: Risk and the Theory of Security Risk Assessment. Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30600-7_1
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