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Wednesday 23 October 2013, 13:00-14:30
Individual risk: does it exist?
- đ¤ Speaker: Phil Dawid (Statistical Laboratory, Univeristy of Cambridge)
- đ Date & Time: Wednesday 23 October 2013, 13:00 - 14:30
- đ Venue: Seminar Room 2, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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Christopher Clarke
Abstract
Writing recently about her decision to have a preventive double mastectomy, Angelina Jolie said: “My doctors estimated that I had an 87 percent risk of breast cancer and a 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer, although the risk is different in the case of each woman.”
Where do such figures come from, and what if anything do they mean? Is it even possible to assign risk values to individual events? I shall consider various statistical and philosophical attempts to grapple with these issues.
Series This talk is part of the CamPoS (Cambridge Philosophy of Science) seminar series.
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