Tue, Dec 07
|Webinar
Keynote: Sir David Spiegelhalter
Should we trust statistics about Covid?


Time & Location
Dec 07, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM EST
Webinar
About the event
Should we trust statistics about Covid?
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'.
Speaker:
Sir David Spiegelhalter
Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk
Statistical Laboratory
University of Cambridge
Moderated by:
Xiao-Li Meng
Editor-in-Chief, Harvard Data Science Review
Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics
Harvard University