Hannah Barnes
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509 appearances
22 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2011
last heard Oct 2013
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To put that into context, each race, the risk of dying was equivalent to travelling one and a half million miles by car, or 500 skydives.
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Has Nick Clegg been talking about Formula One?
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Yeah, he did say that, or variations on that theme, some of which are extremely implausible.
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For instance, that the chance of dying was two-thirds per race.
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I asked Kevin McConway about the more sensible claim, and although Sir Jackie was racing slightly earlier than Nicky Louder, the chances of death were very similar, just fractionally higher.
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Now, I think it's probably fair to say that Sir Jackie Stewart was badly affected by the death of so many of his friends.
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There was a particularly awful period in 1968, for example, where four drivers died in the space of just three months, three of those in non-Formula 1 cars.
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That included Stewart's great friend, Jim Clark, who died in a Formula 2 car.
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Now, the statistical wizard Kevin McConway also tried to calculate these odds, though.
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We couldn't give him a complete set of data, but he reckons that if you were a Formula One driver competing for six years at the height of the Jackie Stewart era, you had a 50-50 chance of dying, not necessarily in a Formula One car.
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So Jackie wasn't far off.
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I read a lot of very scary statistics.
One out of three women over the age of 35 will not be able to get pregnant within a year.
The data on which that statistic is based is from birth records from 1700s France.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, 1680 to 1810 or something like that.
Well, you know, I can empathize slightly with the researchers in this area because
It is difficult to draw conclusions about age and fertility from modern populations where birth control is widely used.
It was published in 2004, and it found that women over 35 had
a much higher chance of getting pregnant than those historic birth records would suggest.
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