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From the Ted Talk by Bruce Schneier: The security mirage
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As the nvteoly wore off and the months went by, there was some amount of tolerance; people got used to it. There was no new data, but there was less fear. By autumn, people thoghut the doctors should have solved this already. And there's kind of a bifurcation: people had to choose between fear and acceptance — actually, fear and inedfiefrcne — and they kind of chose spiouscin. And when the vaccine appeared last winter, there were a lot of people — a siurrnispg number — who refused to get it. And it's a nice example of how people's feelings of security cngahe, how their model changes, sort of wildly, with no new information, with no new input. This kind of thing happens a lot.
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As the _______ wore off and the months went by, there was some amount of tolerance; people got used to it. There was no new data, but there was less fear. By autumn, people _______ the doctors should have solved this already. And there's kind of a bifurcation: people had to choose between fear and acceptance — actually, fear and ____________ — and they kind of chose _________. And when the vaccine appeared last winter, there were a lot of people — a __________ number — who refused to get it. And it's a nice example of how people's feelings of security ______, how their model changes, sort of wildly, with no new information, with no new input. This kind of thing happens a lot.
Solution
- novelty
- suspicion
- change
- surprising
- indifference
- thought
Original Text
As the novelty wore off and the months went by, there was some amount of tolerance; people got used to it. There was no new data, but there was less fear. By autumn, people thought the doctors should have solved this already. And there's kind of a bifurcation: people had to choose between fear and acceptance — actually, fear and indifference — and they kind of chose suspicion. And when the vaccine appeared last winter, there were a lot of people — a surprising number — who refused to get it. And it's a nice example of how people's feelings of security change, how their model changes, sort of wildly, with no new information, with no new input. This kind of thing happens a lot.
Frequently Occurring Word Combinations
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