Future Plans

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.

Submitted by horace on Thu, 29/11/2007 - 2:59pm

Future plans for web-site (june 2008)

  • Regular updates / RSS feed
  • Encourage contributions on topics such as climate change and electromagnetic fields
  • 'Novelty’ features: eg Poetry corner, quotes
  • Use narrative as much as possible - story-based
  • Contribute to Wikipedia when ready, also get linked from there.
  • Short-term topics
  1. Survival
  2. Risk calculators
  3. Risk communication
  4. Drug safety
  5. Bayes theorem - screening / legal cases
  6. Risk sociology
  7. Risk psychology
  • Longer-term topics
    1. Climate change
    2. Regression-to-mean : speed cameras
    3. NICE appraisals
    Free tags: 
    about
    Levels: 
    level 1