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Uncertainty about facts can be reported without damaging public trust in news – study

23 Mar 2020

A series of experiments – including one on the BBC News website – finds the use of numerical ranges in news reports helps us grasp the uncertainty of...

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How risky is your breakfast?

27 Oct 2012

Understanding how the numbers add up in relation to risk can help us deal with our own uncertainty, as David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor for the...

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Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake

Ounce of prevention, pound of cure

09 Oct 2012

Working with humanitarian organisations in Haiti, Cambridge researchers have found that an information system they designed to track how regions...

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David Spiegelhalter

Risk and uncertainty

01 Oct 2012

This month, the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge will be profiling research that addresses risk and uncertainty. To begin, Professor David Spiegelhalter...

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Unclouding uncertainty in climate modelling

01 May 2009

New understanding of the physics of clouds is helping to model both climate change and the impact of volcanic eruptions and wild fires.

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Discarded Teenagers

Key to regulation of puberty discovered

11 Dec 2008

A team of scientists from the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cambridge and the ̽»¨Ö±²¥ of Cukurova in Turkey has taken a major step to understanding how the brain...

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