Bacon sandwiches and middle – class drinkers: the risk of communicating risk

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Bacon sandwiches and middle – class drinkers: the risk of communicating risk

David Spiegelhalter ¹ Hauke Riesch ²

¹ Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk, while continuing to work at the Medical Research Council Biostatistics Unit in Cambridge. He works with Hauke Riesche at the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge. ² Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge.

ABSTRACT

Last year, Cambridge University created the new post of Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk and appointed David Spiegelhalter to the role. With Hauke Riesch he reflects on some news stories that came up soon after he started in his job.

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