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WS MoreOrLess: What is "rare"?
This week: What is ‘rare’? When we say something is rare what do we mean? Lightning strikes which typically kill three people a year in the UK are often described as rare a...
This week: What is ‘rare’?
When we say something is rare what do we mean? Lightning strikes which typically kill three people a year in the UK are often described as rare but how do we square that with a condition like motor neurone disease which is also described as rare yet kills 1500 people a year in the UK.
Also we speak to Nassim Taleb about his book Anti-fragile.
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More or Less: Behind the Stats
Tim Harford investigates numbers in the news: are they always reliable?