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People of Science with Brian Cox - Sir David Spiegelhalter

5 mins watch 12 February 2018

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Sir David Spiegelhalter discusses how the work of amateur mathematician Thomas Bayes and statistician Ronald Fisher – who was also a leading proponent of the now completely discredited eugenics movement - helped to shape the current thinking of probability.

Explore our Google Arts and Culture Collection on Bayes and Fisher -

See our collected archive papers of Fisher & Bayes' work -

With special thanks to the Oxford and Cambridge Club.


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