Some risk announcements!

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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.

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Submitted by david on Fri, 08/01/2010 - 2:33pm

Some items to watch

The UK Meteorological Office has put up a questionnaire on different ways of communicating uncertainty in short-term weather forecasts. I know which ones I prefer, but won't try and influence anyone [this site may go down temporarily, but should be available by Friday 15th January]
This year's Darwin lecture series in Cambridge is on Risk: 8 speakers on all aspects, starting on January 15th.
There is an excellent blog from the Genetic Geneologist (Blaine Bettinger) that very generously puts up details of their increased risk of Type 2 diabetes obtained from genome scans from two companies using a variety of communication formats.

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Comments

Anonymous (not verified)

Wed, 13/01/2010 - 8:14pm

As a 'risk junkie' working in London, is it too much to hope for videos of the Darwin lectures to appear either here or on youtube?? Chris Meadows

gmp26

Mon, 25/01/2010 - 10:39am

Chris, thanks for the prompt - yes the Darwin Lectures are available on video, either through iTunes or through the Cambridge University Streaming Media Service. The liTunes link is:
http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/cam-ac-uk-public.190...
and the SMS link is: http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/728629.
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Mike Pearson