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 ▶    • The politics of DNA and the story of ...  

With special thanks to the Oxford and Cambridge Club.

For more information on the People of Science series: http://ow.ly/zoUy30hV6q1