Mark Dolliver: Ranking People's Day-to-Day Fears

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Franklin Roosevelt to the contrary, most people have plenty to fear besides fear itself. But what do they fear most of all? Conducted in the U.S. and 19 other countries (mostly European), a survey by GfK Custom Research for The Wall Street Journal Europe asked adults to identify their “greatest day-to-day-fear.”

The No. 1 fear of the international respondent pool, picked from a menu of dire choices, was “death/illness/injury in the family,” cited by 33 percent.

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