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Understanding risk – play it safe or eat a bacon sandwich?

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David Spiegelhalter is a Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at Cambridge University. He studies the choices we make, and how those choices can have an effect later on. As he explains in the video below, we have a risky side (the part of you that says it's okay to eat a pound of [...]

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