Event: Communicating Statistics to the public in the time of Covid
Dates: Tuesday 15 March 2022
Time: 11:00
Venue: Lab 602, Maths and Physics Building
Sir David Spiegelhalter will be giving a presentation on Communicating Statistics to the public in the time of Covid on 15 March at 11:00.
Abstract
The current pandemic has emphasised the key role that statistics play in understanding what is going on around us. But how reliable are all these numbers? How much should we trust what we hear and read? When do statistics become misinformation? I will look at the way that statistics can be used to try and persuade audiences to think or act in a certain way, including some utter data disasters, and contrast this with efforts to make communication 'trustworthy'.
This event is being organised by the Department of Statistics and Operations Research
