David Spiegelhalter

I'm a retired professor in the Statistical Laboratory at the University of Cambridge and Chair of the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication.

I'm a statistician, and my passionate interest is in the use of statistics in society: the way that they're communicated in the media, the way that they're used by policy, the way that the public understand them and, of course, all the fake news, misinformation, and the claims made on the basis of numbers.

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Publications

Spiegelhalter, D. (2019). The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data. Basic Books.
Spiegelhalter, D. (2020). Use of “normal” risk to improve understanding of dangers of covid-19. BMJ, 370, m3259.
Spiegelhalter, D. (2020). Should We Trust Algorithms?. Harvard Data Science Review, 2(1).
van der Bles, A. M., van der Linden, S., Freeman, A. L. J., et al. (2020). The effects of communicating uncertainty on public trust in facts and numbers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(14), 7672–7683.
Freeman, A. L. J., & Spiegelhalter, D. J. (2018). Communicating health risks in science publications: time for everyone to take responsibility. BMC Medicine, 16, Article 207.
van der Bles, A. M., van der Linden, S., Freeman, A. L. J., et al. (2019). Communicating uncertainty about facts, numbers and science. Royal Society Open Science, 6(5), Article 181870.

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