College News

How do Financial Planners and Doctors Explain Risk?

Study shows risk assessments often include error in logic

By Teresa Pitman
Wednesday, November 9, 2011

At Guelph

Imagine you are about to invest some money through a financial planner. How much faith should you have in your planner’s definition of risk? Or imagine you are making a decision about accepting a particular medical treatment. How should you make sense of the risks outlined by your doctor?

It may be more complex than you think, says sociology professor Patrick Parnaby. He’s been conducting research on the ways that financial planners communicate with their clients about risk, and now has a new study showing that physicians use similar approaches.

Peace Week 2011: A Time for Tolerance

Second-year criminal justice and public policy major Noorain Shethwala speaks out about the meaning of Peace Week

November 07, 2011

Campus Bulletin

Every year, Peace Week at the University of Guelph looks different, but its purpose remains the same – to promote peace and understanding among diverse people. From Nov. 9 to 16, students across campus will meet to share ideas and explore the meaning of peace in their lives, in our country and around the world.

Garbage Picking is a Dirty Job

Geography Prof Kate Parizeau says informal recyclers are often lower-middle-class

By Teresa Pitman
Monday, October 31, 2011

At Guelph

Some 9,000 people in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, make their living through informal waste recycling. “Informal” means they don’t have regular jobs in recycling plants; instead, they are picking through garbage bags that have been set out in front of homes or businesses and searching for cardboard, bottles, cans and other items that can be sold to recycling depots.

Lieutenant Governor of Ontario's Remarks to the Centre for Families, Work and Wellbeing Conference