The Myth of Risks – David Spiegelhalter
The Myth of Risks – David Spiegelhalter http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6901649.ece Last year 509,090 people died in England and Wales, and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has just released full details of what they died of. For a statistician this means 346 riveting pages of morbid detail, ranging from the rare fatalities from hang-gliders (2), dog bites […]
Our children need to take risks
Lazy teachers, jobsworth council officers, sensationalist media reporting, kneejerk politicians and sharp lawyers and insurers all have a hand in fuelling the health and safety culture. And at the very centre of the mess are some deeply confused values about children. In the past years we have begun to realise the flaws in this zero-risk […]