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How good are you at calculating risk?

Gerd Gigerenzer · TED

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About

A new drug reduces the risk of heart attacks by 40%. Shark attacks are up by a factor of two. Drinking a liter of soda per day doubles your chance of developing cancer. These are all examples of a common way risk is presented in news articles, and can often be misleading. So how can we better evaluate risk? Gerd Gigerenzer explores the difference between relative and absolute risk. [Directed by Visorama, narrated by Addison Anderson].

The talk

  1. How good are you at calculating risk? 5 min · TED's player

Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED-Ed
Speaker
Gerd Gigerenzer
Year
2020
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Mathematics, Psychology and the brain, Teaching and learning
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
TED Talks are licensed by TED under Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 International and are shown here in TED's own player, as TED's usage policy asks.
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