Fionn wrote:Um yes it does, surely you have done some formal risk assessment training at some point in your life?
The 2 main points of rating a risk is likelihood of the risk happening and consequence if the risk happened.
Extremely rare makes the likelihood well extremely rare, so by definition a lower risk.
I only do informal risk assessment, in the real world, in real time, not in classrooms.
The risk of travelling around an area, at night, where people generally avoid driving around at night, especially while roads are closed and emergency response teams could be around the next corner managing the bushfires, with at least some extremely incriminating evidence of what Americans would call a "capital crime", is extremely risky, anyway. With the consequence being potentially spending the rest of your life in jail, or having to murder any further witness you might stumble upon, further increasing the risk factors astronomically, supports it being an extremely risky decision, and one that may well have been instrumental to solving the case.
But you get back to your book learning.