(A) Risk communicators are effectively addressing the proloferation of complex technologies that have increasing impact on public health and safety.
(B) Risk communicators should assess lay people’s understanding of technologies in order to be able to give them the information they need to make reasonable decisions.
(C) Experts who want to communicate to the public about the possible risks of complex technologies must simplify their message to ensure that it is understandable
(D) Risk communication can be perceived as the task of persuading lay people to accept the impact of a particular technology on their lives.
(E) Lay people can be unduly influenced by subjective concerns when making decisions about technological risks.
2. The authors of the passage would be most likely to agree that the primary purpose of risk communication should be to
(A) explain rather than to persuade
(B) promote rather than to justify
(C) influence experts rather than to influence lay people
(D) allay people’s fears about mundane hazards rather than about exotic hazards.