Some recent coverage
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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.
Random events tend to cluster, and just to illustrate this we've suddenly got a burst of coverage of our work:
- On Radio 4, More or Less reported on the success of our football predictions at the end of the last season.
- The Guardian included a Response to Simon Jenkins' article on the uncertainties of weather forecasting.
- New Scientist carried an Opinion piece on over-reaction to risk
- Straight Statistics is intended to "improve the understanding and use of statistics by government, politicians, companies, advertisers and the mass media". A recent article questioned the finding of 'statistical significance' in the court case against Corby Council
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