# How good are you at calculating risk?

- 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](https://www.ted.com/talks/gerd_gigerenzer_how_good_are_you_at_calculating_risk)
- Licence: [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/) (Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions.)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

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. \[Directed by Visorama, narrated by Addison Anderson\].

## Lectures

1. [How good are you at calculating risk?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/ted/gerd_gigerenzer_how_good_are_you_at_calculating_risk/00de293527f5), 5 min (TED's player)