David Spiegelhalter Q&A: “I can’t think of anything worse than eternity”

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David Spiegelhalter Q&A: “I can’t think of anything worse than eternity”

David Spiegelhalter was born in Barnstaple, Devon, in 1953. He is a statistician, emeritus professor of statistics and fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge. He hosts the podcast Risky Talk. What’s your earliest memory? When I was about three or four, sitting in a small orange chair outside our kitchen door on a very busy main road. I could watch cars (and presumably breathe in their exhaust fumes) for hours. What book last changed your thinkin…