Date/Time
Date(s) - Wed 4 November
12:00 - 13:00
Location
KK301, Kirk Building, VUW
Scientific evidence seems to have lost its authority to persuade. In a new world of easily accessible, rapid, mass communication all kinds of ideas – good and bad – can travel fast. A deluge of information leads to people seeking simplicity, yet ideas without evidence may often be dressed up in the sometimes deliberately obscure language of science. In this talk Richard Arnold will use examples from statistics, politics, health and sport to discuss some of the reasons why it’s hard for evidence to be seen as convincing.
All Welcome!
If you are unable to make it, join from PC, Mac, iOS or Android: https://vuw.zoom.us/j/92322836929
If you do join by Zoom, please remember to turn off your microphone and camera for the duration of the talk.
Please note that we will be recording this seminar via Zoom.
THIS WEEK WE WILL BE BACK IN KKLT301