These are all examples of relative risk, a common way risk is presented in news articles.

这些都是相对风险的例子，也是风险通常出现在新闻报道中的方式。

One common stumbling block is the difference between relative risks like these and what are called absolute risks.

使人摸不着头脑的是相对风险与绝对风险之间的区别。

Conversely, the lonely are better off ramping up their protection against bacterial infection, which is a bigger relative risk to them.

相反，孤独之人更善于加强他们对细菌感染的保护反应，这对他们来说是一个相对更大的风险。

Offit said: " I think that in the world of trying to weigh relative risks, the disease is a greater risk" .

" 我认为，在试图权衡相对风险的这个世界上，感染这种疾病所带来的风险更大。"

The absolute risk reduction was about 0.1%, but the relative risk reduction from 5 cases of cancer mortality to 4 is 20%.

绝对风险降低了大约 0.1%，而癌症死亡率从 5 例降至 4 例，相对风险降低了 20%。

The third point is that the relative risks in nutrition derived from epidemiology research are so low that they are indistinguishable from chance.

第三个弊端是，从流行病研究中得出的营养相对风险值太低，以至于其毫无参考意义。

A recent study found that the relative risk of death by car was 43% higher on Halloween than other nights.

最近的一项研究发现，万圣节期间驾车死亡的相对风险比其他夜晚高 43%。

The other thing about this report is, if you're familiar with epidemiology, you'd know that a study with a relative risk under 2 is probably noise and should be thrown out.

关于这份报告的另一件事是，如果你熟悉流行病学，你就会知道一个相对风险低于2的研究可能是扯谈，应该被抛弃。

Additionally, novel workflows need to seek an optimal balance of human-computer interaction, which will depend on the kinds of tasks and the relative risks involved, and establish human oversight of automated flows.

此外，新颖的工作流程需要寻求人机交互的最佳平衡，这将取决于任务的类型和所涉及的相对风险，并建立对自动化流程的人工监督。

In other words, the drug could prevent four out of ten heart attacks — a relative risk reduction of 40%, meanwhile, the absolute risk only dropped from 1% to 0.6 % — but the 40% relative risk decrease sounds a lot more significant.

换言之，这种药可以避免十分之四的人犯心脏病——相当于降低了 40% 的相对风险。与此同时，绝对风险只从 1% 降低至 0.6% ——但是降低了 40% 的相对风险听上去效果更显著。