A US Riskometer
uu:health links
As of the 23rd May 2022 this website is archived and will receive no further updates.
understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
Many of the animations were produced using Flash and will no longer work.
A selection of our social bookmarks sorted by category which we believe to be of general interest. {Originally stored on https://del.icio.us/undunc}
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American Council on Science and Health - Riskometer and RiskRings
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Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool
Provides 5-year and lifetime breast cancer risk from basic patient data
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Public health: The hidden menace of mobile phones - Independent Online Edition > Health
Independent article on cancer risk from phones
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Understanding Children's Heart Surgery
This site is to help people make sense of published survival data about children’s heart surgery in the UK and Ireland.
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Using mobile phones for more than 10 years 'doubles risk of brain cancer' | the Daily Mail
report on paper