I really had problems in the past trying to don't say bad words to the incredible amount of people that suffer from this "bias".
Things like "don't eat too much meat, statistically it may hurt your healt". Reply: "My grandmother used to eat tons of meat and dead at 90".
First you have data sample that is relevant to people just like you. That means that you do not have to compensate for other factors as you're affected in the same way.
Second you do not have to trust other people for properly gathering, processing, and presenting the data.
For example how many of your friends (or friends of friends if your sample is too small) are dead in auto accidents is a lot better predictor for your fate than any global country statistics you can find.
Also, the thing with quite a few statistics is that the risk is say 1/1000, and I honestly have closer to 50 people who I interact with in a month.