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Big Picture Science

Poi­so­nous snakes, light­ning strikes, a rogue rock from space. There are plen­ty of scary things to fret about, but are we burn­ing adren­a­line on the right ones? Step­ping into the bath­tub is more dan­ger­ous than fly­ing from a sta­tis­ti­cal point of view, but no one signs up for fear of show­er­ing” classes. 

Find out why we get tripped up by sta­tis­tics, wor­ry about the wrong things, and how the intel­li­gence trap” not only leads smart peo­ple to make dumb mis­takes but actu­al­ly caus­es them to make more.

Guests:

Eric Chudler – Research asso­ciate pro­fes­sor, depart­ment of bio­engi­neer­ing, Uni­ver­si­ty of Wash­ing­ton, Seat­tle and co-author of Wor­ried: Sci­ence Inves­ti­gates Some of Life’s Com­mon Concerns”

Lise John­son – Direc­tor of the Basic Sci­ence Cur­ricu­lum, Rocky Vista Uni­ver­si­ty, and co-author of Wor­ried: Sci­ence Inves­ti­gates Some of Life’s Com­mon Concerns”

Willie Turn­er – Vice Pres­i­dent of Oper­a­tions at the Hiller Avi­a­tion Muse­um in San Car­los, CA

Charles Whee­lan – Senior Lec­tur­er and Pol­i­cy Fel­low, Dart­mouth Col­lege, and author of Naked Statistics”

David Rob­son – Com­mis­sion­ing Edi­tor for the BBC and author of The Intel­li­gence Trap: Why Smart Peo­ple Make Dumb Mistakes”