World Science Festival — Season 1, Episode 11: The Illusion of Certainty: Risk, Probability, and Chance
Documentary, Talk • 30 min • 2 seasons, 24 episodes
Episode synopsis
Stuff happens. The weather forecast says it’s sunny, but you just got drenched. You got a flu shot—but you’re sick in bed with the flu. Your best friend from Boston met your other best friend from San Francisco. Coincidentally. What are the odds? Risk, probability, chance, coincidence—they play a significant role in the way we make decisions about health, education, relationships, and money. But where does this data come from and what does it really mean?
About World Science Festival
The World Science Festival gathers great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Their mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1Infinite Worlds: A Journey through Parallel Universes
- E2Quantum Reality: Space, Time, and Entanglement
- E3A Thin Sheet of Reality: The Universe as a Hologram
- E4Beyond Beauty: The Predictive Power of Symmetry
- E5Engineering the Brain: Deploying a New Neural Toolkit
- E6Gravitational Waves: A New Era of Astronomy Begins
- E7Hidden Dimensions: Exploring Hyperspace
- E8Neutrinos, Matter, and Antimatter: The Yin Yang of the Big Bang
- E9How Music Affects Your Brain: Notes on the Folds
- E10Measure for Measure: Quantum Physics and Reality
- E12The Matter of Antimatter: Answering the Cosmic Riddle of Existence