LUNCH WITH SIR DAVID SPIEGELHALTER
As Cambridge University’s professor of the public understanding of risk, Sir David Spiegelhalter knows well that lunch at the Rag is not a gamble. Accordingly, please join him at the table to consider many of the odds we all face and how to make sensible decisions based on chance. A Newsnight and Radio 4 Today programme staple, especially throughout the pandemic where he enlighten us on sometimes unfathomable data, Sir David will share at the table in conversation how he has used numbers for the benefit of society. At the same time, he will confide how his wider life has not always followed the logic and preferred patterns of his calling.
All this surely amounts to a huge compelling time in the Drawing room with someone who has been president of the Royal Statistical Society and encourages everyone to know numbers so that they cannot be used to fool you and that there limitations are also understood. A lunch that certainly adds up.