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Hannah Fry: The Mathematician Who Knows Uncertainty Is Unavoidable

Medicine and the Machine

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I've Showed Them the Data That They Can't See

I take the vote from an audience and get them to decide whether they want to race or not. And at that point you reveal that actually the data that they're looking at is real, but it has nothing to do with races. I've actually shown them the real data from the challenge of disaster. On the night before challenged a launched and as we all know very tragically exploded soon after take off. But because they didn't have the data to back up what they were saying the managers refuse to pull the launch.

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