A situation of uncertainty where we can not calculate all risk but where we can know things and also to relax a little bit and do reasonable decisions or it decisions that proof fundamentally and this again in the context of for instance masses of numbers of ventilators were bought for corona virus that it turns out we dont need why are we more scared of what is less likely to kill us the key problem you know society is that we all have learned how to read and write but not to become risk literate at least to understand the numbers so the numbers that made us feel the numbers of infections or this and also to understand the kind of thinking about what might lead to ward. Youve talked articulately how to interpret mammogram results cancer risk flu risk which ill get onto in a moment have i better just ask you then are we more scared than we should be about coronavirus theres nobody who came to tell you exactly where this virus is growing so we need to live with uncertainty but we can pr
Skype from berlin is director of the Harding Center of a risk literacy professor good. Thanks so much pride for coming on to as i say were going to all be watching our politicians tell us about the fact that they are following the science how should we interpret what those politicians tell us in the in the context of risk and literacy i think it would be really important that people themselves think about the risks to get into or only with their behavior im also not sure that politicians know whats the best thing to do this is a situation of uncertainty where we can know kind of Political Risk but were you know things and also relax a little bit and do reasonable decisions route decisions prufrock for. And the men play and this again in the context of for instance massive numbers of ventilators were bought for corona virus that it turns out we dont need why are we more scared of what is less likely to kill us the a key problem in our society is that we all have learned how to read and
Cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy his latest book is churchill and stalin comrades in arms during the 2nd world war right gentlemen crosstalk roles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want the house appreciate it or i let me 1st go to demon here in moscow you know d. M. A. Here we go again this is almost like our tradition with our calling jeffrey we do this every single year commemorating victory in europe over fascism and for every single year that we do it we find ourselves in more and more in a revisionist mode here i mean as i understand as were sitting down doing our chat right now is that facebook has banned a colorized version of the of the soviet banner over europe on the very very iconic one of showing victory in europe and you know ive searched around its a true story i mean what in the world is going on here the black and white version seems to be except for the color one. Not are there different meanings or is this a revision and sell and why in the
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