Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.'… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Women are far more likely to follow orders to evacuate, especially women with children. At the same time, women were much more… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
A lot of the time you see a warning, in the subway, or in a movie theater, the main thrust of the… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
We don't talk about that at all as a country. I think that most people assume that there's nothing they could do… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
People with military experience seem to do very well in these situations. They've been taught that they can control their destiny, which… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
You could reduce people's fears if you gave them some useful information before things went wrong. It's really important to create a… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Well, there isn't any one profile of a survivor, but there are profiles. Depending on the disaster you have certain advantages and disadvantages just… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
Resilience is a precious skill. People who have it tend to also have three underlying advantages: a believe that they can influence life events;… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of destruction+unfairness]. The… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
The one thread that was most surprising and most consistent was the lack of fear that people felt at the worst moment. They felt… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“Since 9/11, the U.S. government has sent over $23 billion to states and cities in the name of homeland security. Almost none of that… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“One thing was clear: To give our kids the kind of education they deserved, we had to first agree that rigor mattered most of… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“Everywhere I went, in every country, people complained about their education system. It was a universal truth and a strangely reassuring one. No one… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
My anxiety about disasters is lower. The more you know, the less scary any of this stuff is. And that's my hope for the… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“In almost every other developed country, the schools with the poorest students had more teachers per student; the opposite was true in only four… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“These days, we tend to think of disasters as acts of God and government. Regular people only feature into the equation as victims, which… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“Statistically speaking, tracking tended to diminish learning and boost inequality wherever it was tried. In general, the younger tracking happened, the worse the entire… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
