WS MoreOrLess: What is "rare"?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
English - December 17, 2012 12:00 - 9 minutes - 8.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 740 ratingsNews Education Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: The Census and what does 'rare' mean?
Next Episode: Fact-checking US gun crime statistics
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.