re: This board and 'risk homeostasis'

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When does this "balanced state" establish itself? When does one become a 1 or a 10?

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That's a good question. I haven't read anything on it's relation to our childhood but my guess is that it starts there. I've been around extremely rural people in Tenn. who let there 4 y.o. boy run around naked in summer in weed fields taller than the kid. I doubt if those kids grow up to be fearful of much.