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David Spiegelhalter

출생: August 16, 1953 – Barnstaple, Devon, United Kingdom

David Spiegelhalter is a British statistician and science communicator whose work focuses on risk, uncertainty, probability, and evidence. He is the author of The Art of Statistics and Covid by Numbers, and has broadened public understanding of data through academic leadership, media work, and honors including a knighthood.

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David Spiegelhalter was born in Barnstaple, Devon, and educated at Barnstaple Grammar School before reading mathematics at Keble College, Oxford. At Oxford, the statistician Adrian Smith helped steer him away from pure mathematics and toward probability and Bayesian thinking, a shift that became the foundation of his career. He then completed an MSc and a PhD in Statistical Science at University College London. From the start, his path combined technical depth with an unusual interest in how non-specialists understand numbers, risk, and uncertainty. ((https://www.northdevongazette.co.uk/news/local-news/1947524/round-table-celebrates-75th-with-return-of-prestigious-former-barumite.html?utm_source=openai))

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in our everyday world, probability probably does not exist—but it is often useful to act as if it did
-Probability Probably Doesn’t Exist
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So I think the take-home message is that we should be clear what we do know, and then proclaim our uncertainty with confidence
-The Problem with Failing to Admit We Don’t Know
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perhaps we need a form of muscular uncertainty
-Trust in numbers
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There's a huge need for data literacy among the whole population
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You’ve got 70 years ahead of you. What are you going to do with them?
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We would often like to know the reason why rare, unpleasant, or surprising events happen
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We're actively trying to research how you can communicate uncertainty about a fact without losing trust and credibility
-Changing the way we communicate risk
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Statistics can be boring things laid out in tables to four decimal places
-Statistics are either dull or wrong: discuss
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You have to say what you do know and then you have to say what you don't know
-Communicating the coronavirus crisis

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"David Spiegelhalter is probably the greatest living statistical communicator; he's one of the great communicators in any field"

Tim Harford

"David Spiegelhalter is a national treasure, and this might be his wisest, most humane and most personal book"

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"Sir David Spiegelhalter shares both his vast experience of statistics and his passion for the subject"

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"What David Spiegelhalter does here is provide a very thorough introductory grounding in statistics without making use of mathematical formulae"

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"Sir David Spiegelhalter is a national treasure in the world of statistics, achieving everything from a knighthood to appearing on Total Wipeout"

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"If I had to trust just one person to interrogate statistical data, I'd trust David Spiegelhalter"

Michael Blastland

"David Spiegelhalter has gained a deserved reputation as a masterful communicator of statistics and risk"

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