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Feted as a ‘statistical national treasure’ and ‘Professor Risk’, David Spiegelhalter has spent his career crunching data in order to help mitigate risk and uncertainty about what might happen in the world. Like his bestselling The Art of Statistics, this book is a winning combination of memorable real-world examples and storytelling, accessible number crunching and wry and funny observations, offering an essential guide to living in uncertain times.
While there are three kinds of luck in our lives, he shows us why by far the most influential is our constitutive luck: how and when you were born – your parents, time, place and circumstance. He explores why ‘coincidences’ happen surprisingly often and random things tend to cluster, in ways that are profoundly counter intuitive and almost always surprise us.
Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter FRS OBE is Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication in the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge. His bestselling book, The Art of Statistics, has been published in 11 languages.
Joining David in conversation is economist, journalist and broadcaster Tim Harford. He is author of Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, How To Make The World Add Up, and the million-selling The Undercover Economist amongst others. Tim is a senior columnist at the Financial Times and was made an OBE for services to improving economic understanding in the New Year honours of 2019.
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