Risk Management
One of the many dangers,?#risks,?and vulnerabilities concealed in risk visuals is the transition from one square to that another. In particular, how the danger, risk, hazard, or peril needs to accumulate in one square before it 'spills over into the next. In other words, the threat or risk must rise to the maximum level of one to transition into the next highest square. This cliff, chasm, or accumulation is a risk consideration in and of itself. If the process were sand (like an hourglass), this accumulation (approaching chaos) would be visceral and obvious. But it is concealed visually, numerically, and conceptually within the majority of risk visuals and statistical spreadsheet model(s). These rising and falling risk levels conceal shock, fragility,?#crisis,?and failure. "escape velocity" remains a challenge within physics and natural/social science(s). it is an ever-present threat when seeking to color-code threats, hazards, and risks or relies on Euclidean geometry and fractals. How do you communicate, calculate and prepare for cumulative risk and the 'drop' from low to medium and/or high?
A practical, applied example would be lining up a group of humans from tallest to shortest. Now join this line into a circle. The real height from the tallest is now extremely pronounced and not a gradual transition. Any statistical or numerical concept that 'leaps' from the highest to the shortest is perilous at best.