Risk
* Being alive risk.
* Factor a personal attribute that correlates with an increased risk for developing skin cancer.
* accounts for probability of an event as well as the potential loss.
* also exists in the social context in which young people grow up, such as family and school.
* also increases after a heart attack or with malfunctions in the way the heart pumps blood
  - when people are drunk or high on drugs
  - plays an important role in international capital movements
  - varies by type of cancer
  - works to increase the cost of the drug
* are inherent in any form of investment
  - measures of the threat of hazards
  - present in every human activity
  - the possibilities of a loss
  - time based - Risk future phenomenon caused by today's actions
* associated with cigarette smoking is independent of culture
  - drug use arises from sharing injection equipment, i.e., needles and syringes
  - liposuction include infection, bleeding, incomplete removal of fat
* based pricing applies to all loans except real estate loans and lines of credit.
* can mean different things to different people.
* challenge to calculate in the present an unknown future.
* clear and certain cost of business.
* comes in a variety of forms and fashions
  - all shapes and forms
* commodity whose potential downside is often shared.
* complex and often subjective notion
  - multi-attribute concept
* complex, multidimensional concept that manifests itself in various ways.
* concept that used in the chemical industry and by practicing chemical engineers
  - used to express the material effects of an uncertain environment
* convolution of exposure , hazard , and vulnerability.
* crucial factor to investors weighing whether to put their money in stocks or bonds.
* declines with the number of years of smoking cessation.
* decreases when people at risk move to areas of lower risk.
* digest that describes many of the technological risks that happen in today's environment.
* encompasses the uncertainty of future reward in terms of both the upside and the downside.
* essentially means uncertainty of outcome or the possibility of an adverse outcome.
* exist as a consequence of uncertainty.
* exists, especially in capital markets.
* expresses a person s chance of getting sick or having something happen.
* fact of business and of life
  - life for any investor
* factor that can dramatically affect transplant cost
  - plays a big role
* function of behavior and nothing else
  - the inherent hazard and level of exposure
* fundamental aspect of every business.
* game of military strategy and world conquest.
* generally depend on age, general health, specific medical conditions, and heart function.
* has everything to do with the probabilities of making incorrect financial choices.
* increase the older the mother is at the time of birth.
* increases with age and family history of ovarian cancer
  - age, duration of use, smoking, and perhaps increased body mass
  - exposure involving deep injuries, and large numbers of viruses
  - stress, an illness that has lowered resistance, fatigue or overwork
* increases with the number of cigarettes smoked and the duration of smoking
  - first-degree relatives affected by prostate cancer
* is actually the reason exchange trading of the basic agricultural products began
  - always involved in making a choice
* is an act, activity, or asset of the state which presents a potential for loss
  - apprenticeship in flexibility, a game with life's unknowns
* is an essential element of life-long learning
  - part of life
  - inescapable factor in veterinary decision making
  - inherent part of capitalism
  - input in the business of generating returns
* is an integral component of today's business environment
  - part of the stock market
  - interpretation or assessment that a person makes about a given set of circumstances
  - objective, quantitatively measurable entity
  - associated with where the excess fat is stored on the body
  - board games
  - characteristic of the relationship between humans and geologic processes
  - confused with hazard, but risk is actually a problem of probabilities
  - considered to be part of investing
  - danger
* is dependent on frequency of smoking, tar content, and age at which smoking began
  - upon the duration of an individual s exposure
  - dose-related with individuals smoking four or more cigars at greatest risk
  - driven by a number of factors
  - everywhere in business
  - exposure to possible loss or injury
* is increased among women from the time of menopause
  - by having more than one partner
  - when oxygen is given in surgery
* is increased with dehydration and concurrent use of nephrotoxic drugs
  - diabetes, vitamin D deficiencies, or diets low in calcium
  - increased age, size, and exposure to the outdoors
* is inherent in business
  - to life and especially, to the stock market
* is involved because excess ingestion of iodine can cause thyroid disorders
  - when fixing a future value on a vehicle
  - low in persons in monogamous relationships and mother to child during birth
* is measured by dispersion of outcomes or the standard deviation or variance
  - standard deviation on the horizontal axis with return on the vertical axis
* is measured by the variance of the asset s rate of return over time measured by ex-post data
  - volatility in the price of a stock or other security
* is part of everyday life
  - living in a highly technological world
* is part of the adrenaline rush
  - investment landscape
  - present in all human activities
  - probability times consequences
  - proportional to the number of cigarettes smoked
* is related to the dispersion of a distribution
  - extent of exposure to a hazard
  - spread of our results
  - risk whether it is short term or long term and the damage is irreversible
  - risk, whether the company is small or large
  - shown in levels of standard deviation, a commonly used measure of volatility
  - the chance of being harmed or suffering loss
* is the chance of injury, damage or loss, often expressed as degrees of probability
  - loss associated with future investment returns
  - realizing low returns or perhaps even a loss
  - coal in the various locomotives of the economy, whether local, national, or global
* is the combination of probability and consequence
  - the likelihood and the consequence of a specified hazard being realized
* is the cost of aggressive objectives
  - attaining anything of real value
  - currency of life
  - downside of a gamble which is described in terms of probability
  - driving element of climbing
  - exposure to the chance of injury or loss
  - intersection of threat and vulnerability
  - keyword, used first as a noun then as a verb
  - lack of certainty
  - likelihood of getting a disease
* is the likelihood of harm or injury arising from the particular hazard
  - some outcome occurring given the presence of some factor
  - mirror image of opportunity
* is the opposite of opportunity
  - safety
* is the possibility of danger or harm
  - loss, damage, or any other undesirable event
  - suffering harm or loss
* is the potential for losing money
  - realizing low returns or even losing money
  - price volatility of a particular investment
  - primary factor governing scheduling, performance, and reporting of audits
* is the probability of injury, disease, or death under specific circumstances
  - occurrence multiplied by the severity of the consequences
  - or likelihood of something undesirable happening
* is the product of hazard and vulnerability
  - probability and consequences
  - the probability and the consequence of a considered event
  - property that causes value to vary in uncertain ways
  - relationship between toxicity and exposure
  - road to gain
  - sensitivity of an indicator to an ecological disturbance
* is the variability of an investment's returns over time
  - then the proportion of subjects who become cases
  - tied to the most sexually active group
  - to a developing self as protein is to muscles
  - uncertainty, particularly uncertainty about future cash flows
  - ventures
  - volatility of returns
* is what an entrepreneur is all about
  - is at stake, what is lost if our forecast is wrong
  - sets investing apart from saving
* major aspect of human behaviour.
* means an estimate of the likely occurrence of a hazard.
* means the likelihood of the harm being realised
  - probability of adverse effect consequential to hazard
* measure of the financial and human costs associated with the occurrence of such events.
* measure of the probability of an adverse event occurring
* measured quantity.
* measurement of the likelihood of an undesirable event occurring
  - severity of threats
* natural part of life and therefore a part of many sports.
* part of change and growth
* product between chance, vulnerability and value-exposure.
* quantifiable concept.
* refers only to the agencies that cause fires
  - to the chance of significant losses of service related to various scenarios
* relative concept.
* resulting from obesity are high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer.
* synonym for all the adverse outcomes that the organization wishes to avoid.
* taking As risk is spread out among more people, the more people are willing to take risks.
* term often used by insurers and bankers.
* time relativistic term.
+ Danger: Epidemiology :: Safety
  * Risk is different from prevalence.
+ Obesity, Health issues: Health problems :: Physiques
  * Risk is associated with where the excess fat is stored on the body. Abdominal obesity is particularly dangerous.
+ Standard deviation, More examples, Application examples, Money: Statistics
  * Risk is one reason to make decisions about what to buy. Risk is a number people can use to know how much money they may earn or lose.