What are the Chances? Living with Risk and Uncertainty

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• Professor David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk
• Monday 14 May 2012, 19:30-21:00
• Wolfson Lecture Theatre, Churchill College, Storey's Way, Cambridge.

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None of us know what is in store for us, but facing this full-square can be tricky. I will look at some of the ways that institutions use to communicate uncertainty about the future, whether verbal, numerical or visual, and suggest some alternative metaphors that may be effective. I will also consider the dangers of ‘premature reassurance’ and the ‘calm down, dear’ school of risk communication.

This talk is part of the Cambridge Society for the Application of Research (CSAR) series.

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