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Understanding risk today: the art of statistics

Please note this educative discussion was filmed in November 2019 at the Battle of Ideas festival, prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. Understanding risk and statistics has probably never been more important. What numbers should we trust, and why? How do we balance risks? Should we see risks as dangers, or opportunities? Is there a problem if we conflate the worst-case scenario with the likely scenario? Professor David Spiegelhalter, author of The Art of Statistics, and two respondents guide us through a much-maligned topic, to explain you don’t need to be good with equations to understand statistics.