Podcast: Can we trust maths? – with Kit Yates

This month we hear from Kit Yates about the maths of medicine, crime and the media, exploring real-world data from his book, ‘The Maths of Life and Death’.

Listen time: 54:02
Maths equations on a chalkboard
Image credit: Artturi Jalli via Unsplash

If you see a newspaper headline with a big, bold statistic, how do you know that you can trust it? How often do false positive and false negative test results occur in medical screenings? And how do you safely bet whether or not 2 people in any room will share a birthday?

Topic

Maths

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