Dr Liam Brierley: War, Pestilence, Death, and …Statistics?
Location: The Stolberg 197 Plenty Rd Preston
Access: Close to Bell train station and 86 tram stop.
Join us for a meal and conversation from 6:00 pm or drop in for the televised Zoom event at 7:30 pm.
A $5 donation is appreciated to cover venue costs.
Often portrayed as the most deceptive and most disliked of the mathematical sciences, statistics gets a tough deal. It’s no surprise then that statistics is interwoven throughout all things morbid, including disease, conflict, and death.
In this talk Liam will review some statistical fallacies through grim tales from history and show how they’re more relevant than ever before. Liam will also discuss the challenge of public perceptions of statistics and demo some techniques he uses to help people cast a more critical eye over the swathes of numbers we now meet in everyday life.
In this talk Liam will review some statistical fallacies through grim tales from history and show how they’re more relevant than ever before. Liam will also discuss the challenge of public perceptions of statistics and demo some techniques he uses to help people cast a more critical eye over the swathes of numbers we now meet in everyday life.
Dr Liam Brierley is a Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow who uses epidemiology and biostatistics to investigate infectious diseases. Liam is also a media Ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society and has worked with national press including The Guardian and BBC’s Panorama to make sense of health data. He is a keen science communicator and has performed at various science festivals as well as the Edinburgh Fringe.
https://zoom.us/j/95836417359?
Meeting ID: 958 3641 7359
Passcode: 704370
Meeting ID: 958 3641 7359
Passcode: 704370