#2 - David Spiegelhalter on risk, stats and improving understanding of science

<p>Recorded in 2015 by Robert Wiblin with colleague Jess Whittlestone at the Centre for Effective Altruism, and recovered from the dusty 80,000 Hours archives.</p><p> David Spiegelhalter is a statistician at the University of Cambridge and something of an academic celebrity in the UK.</p><p> Part of his role is to improve the public understanding of risk - especially everyday risks we face like getting cancer or dying in a car crash. As a result he’s regularly in the media explaining numbers in the news, trying to assist both ordinary people and politicians focus on the important risks we f...