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How To Be Uncertain

19/10/2016 GMT

How to Be Uncertain

BBC World Service - Business Daily, How to Be Uncertain

An economist, psychoanalyst, soldier and statistician on how to survive uncertain times

An economist and psychoanalyst, a soldier and a statistician give advice on how best to weather uncertain times.

These are uncertain times. The US presidential campaign has been divisive, there is disagreement over Brexit, jitters over China's economy and technology is disrupting traditional labour markets. What is the best way to weather all that uncertainty? We get advice from David Tuckett, professor and director of the Centre for the Study of Decision-Making Uncertainty at University College London. 

Plus, David Spiegelhalter, Winton professor for the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory, at the University of Cambridge, explains the difference between risk and uncertainty. Lt Col Steven Gventer of the US Army tells us how soldiers are trained to deal with uncertainty in war. And, Will Borrell, founder and owner of Vestal Vodka and the owner of the Ladies & Gents bar in London, recalls how his customers reacted on the evening after the UK voted to leave the European Union.

(Photo: Gambling in Culver City, California. Credit: Getty Images)

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