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How should risk assessors and analysts respond to expectations (their own and other people’s) of value-neutrality in their work? One kind of response is to look for ways to satisfy these expectations by separating and keeping separate the factual and evaluative (or scientific and policy) elements of risk-related decision-making. Despite fairly widespread acknowledgement in recent years that this cannot fully be accomplished, the approach appears to have lost little of its initial appeal. If we cannot eliminate all values, the thinking seems to be, we can and should strive to minimize their intrusion.
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Gibson, M. (1987). Quantified Risk Assessment. In: Humber, J.M., Almeder, R.F. (eds) Quantitative Risk Assessment. Biomedical Ethics Reviews. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-656-0_7
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