Talks
ERASING HOME: Lecture by Dr Ammar Azzouz (Oxford)
Dr Ammar Azzouz is author of 'Domicide: Destruction of Home in Syria' (Bloomsbury, 2023).
Communicating health risks and scientific uncertainty
Wed 4 March 2020
Centre for Mathematical Sciences
Communicating health risks and scientific uncertainty.
It is claimed we live in a ‘post-truth’ society in which emotional responses dominate balanced consideration of evidence. This presents a strong challenge to those who value quantitative and scientific evidence: how can we communicate risks and unavoidable scientific uncertainty in a transparent and trustworthy way?
Professor David will talk about formats for communicating quantifiable health risks using 'expected frequencies', and demonstrate user-friendly interfaces for predictions of the potential benefits and harms of treatments for breast or prostate cancer. But can we communicate deeper uncertainty about facts, numbers, or scientific hypotheses without losing trust and credibility? Randomised experiments suggest this may be possible, but there is still a challenge to adequately communicate the limitations in the underlying data.
Cost: Donation of £15 for CamSight local charity, includes drinks & canapés
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