How to stop bad data driving out the good in an age of misuse, misleadingness and misinformation
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| Description: | Ed Humpherson, Director General of the UK Statistics authority, talks about how we can prevent the spread of Fake News and mistrust of experts. |
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| Created: | 2019-03-12 18:25 |
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| Collection: | Centre for Science and Policy talk 2019: Ed Humpherson |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Dr Alexandra Freeman |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Keywords: | fake news; data; communication; statistics; trust; |
| Abstract: | Fake news, post truth, mistrust of experts... a familiar roll call of anxieties – or perhaps clichés – about our data rich world. They point to an underlying fear that in this data abundant age the bad data drives out the good and we are left with a broken public discourse.
The UK Statistics Authority is the champion of statistics and data serving the public good – to allow the good data to shine out and be used, appropriately and with confidence, to inform the public. Ed Humpherson talks about the UKSA’s role in this data rich environment and highlight the central role of trustworthiness – and argues that all producers of statistics can play a key part in the fight back against misleadingness, misuse and misinformation. |
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