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SUMMARY:Communicating Risk and Uncertainty - Professor Sir David Spieghalt
 er\, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk\, Statistical La
 boratory\, University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20191112T180000Z
DTEND:20191112T193000Z
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CONTACT:Krishna Amin
DESCRIPTION:How do we think\, and how do we feel about risk? We are faced 
 with claims of both a reproducibility crisis in scientific publication\, a
 nd of a ‘post-truth’ society\, in which emotional responses dominate o
 ver balanced consideration of evidence.  This presents a strong challenge 
 to those who value quantitative and scientific evidence: how can we commun
 icate risks and unavoidable scientific uncertainty in a transparent and tr
 ustworthy way? In this talk\, Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter discusses 
 the alternative verbal\, numerical and graphical means of communicating un
 certainty. Professor Spiegelhalter is a distinguished statistician and a b
 orn communicator\, as seen in the BBC’s _Tails You Win: The Science of C
 hance_. He is currently the President of the Royal Statistical Society\, a
 nd the Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statist
 ical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge. 
LOCATION:Pfizer Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry\, Lensfield Road
 \, Cambridge
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