People of Science with Brian Cox - Sir David Spiegelhalter

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 - http://ow.ly/EW6l30hPCpZ

See our collected archive papers of Fisher & Bayes' work - http://ow.ly/nr7F30inayN

Watch Adam Rutherford's lecture on the history of eugenics ▶ https://youtu.be/hIIgAIB5AWw

With special thanks to the Oxford and Cambridge Club.

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