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Quotes from Micromorts and microlives — David Spiegelhalter

born 1953 England

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Life-expectancy reduced by 1 year = about 30 minutes off your life expectancy for each day with the habit = 1 Microlife

Micromorts and microlives (2013)

I do math and statistics. That's what I do, so I come at the whole business of turning numbers into stories. ...How can we turn numbers into stories?

Micromorts and microlives (2013)

What we use in the book... are ways which we think might... provide gripping narratives, and yet provide a realistic way of communicating small risks...

Micromorts and microlives (2013)

This was discovered by Gompertz in 1825. There's something about our bodies, the way that we age, that means that every year our chance of dying increases by the same amount, 9%.

Micromorts and microlives (2013)

The point is... that you can make these comparisons quite easy... Hang gliding is... 8 [micromorts], running a marathon is... 7, scuba diving... 5, BASE jumping's going to be 400...

Micromorts and microlives (2013)

Probability was only invented a few hundred years ago. It's not a natural way to think at all. It's extremely difficult and complex. Anything that can help people do it, is of benefit.

Micromorts and microlives (2013)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: David Spiegelhalter (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.