Instant Genius Podcast: COVID numbers, with Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter

Statistician Sir David Spiegelhalter joins us on our podcasts, Instant Genius and Instant Genius Extra.

Published: June 6, 2022 at 6:00 am

Instant Genius is a bite-sized masterclass in podcast form. In this week's episode, we talk to Professor Sir David Spiegelhalter.

He's the non-executive director the UK Statistics Authority, and with Dr Anthony Masters, Statistical Ambassador for the Royal Statistical Society, he co-authored COVID By Numbers: Making Sense Of The Pandemic With Data (£10.99, Pelican).

In this episode, he explains the story that statistics can tell about the COVID-19 pandemic, and what lessons we've learned from the last two years.

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And if that's not enough, you can hear even more from David on Instant Genius Extra.

On this subscription-only show, available on Apple Podcasts, we take a deeper dive into the topics covered onInstant Genius. In this episode, David tells us what he might tell his future self, or future scientists, trying to slow the course of a future pandemic.

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