Gravesend Skeptics in the Pub
Currently there are no live talks at Gravesend but there are online Skeptic in the Pub talks, usually on Thursday at 7pm via the link: http://twitch.tv/SitP (Select the link, right click and choose the Open option you prefer).
The events are listed below but as the organisation is being undertaken centrally things might change and not be immediately updated here. Please keep an eye on the twitch.tv/sitp link for the most up-to-date information.
You don't need a Twitch account to take part and, as with all Skeptic talks, there's no charge but there is a donation option.
When normal service is resumed for Gravesend Skeptics in the Pub an email will be sent to all subscribers and this page will be updated.
Highs and lows during the pandemic (so far)
When?
Thursday, April 22 2021 at 7:00PM
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Where?
Who?
Professor David Speigelhalter
What's the talk about?
Join via: twitch.tv/sitp from 6:45 pm
The current pandemic is notable for the vast traffic in official and unofficial information and claims. David will offer some personal insights into the challenges of trying to bring some illumination to the statistics about the pandemic, illustrated with some examples of things that have gone fairly well, and communication disasters.
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, which aims to improve the way that statistical evidence is used by health professionals, patients, lawyers and judges, media and policy-makers. He has been very busy over the COVID crisis. He presented the BBC4 documentaries “Tails you Win: the Science of Chance”, the award-winning “Climate Change by Numbers”, and in 2011 came 7th in an episode of BBC1’s Winter Wipeout. His bestselling book, The Art of Statistics, was published in March 2019. He was knighted in 2014 for services to medical statistics, was President of the Royal Statistical Society (2017-2018), and became a Non-Executive Director of the UK Statistics Authority in 2020. He is @d_spiegel on Twitter, and his home page is http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~david/