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Description: The Harding Prize for Trustworthy Communication
In 2022 we decided to have two categories of winner: one for information for a public audience and one for an expert audience.
The IFS’s interactive NHS waiting list calculator allows people to play around with ‘what if…’ scenarios to see the effect of different factors on NHS waiting lists. The judges thought that this was a ‘ground breaking’ piece of communication worthy of the Public Audience Award. “Given the importance of data in our society” , said one judge, “playing with this tool, I feel I have seen the future in democratising the models which increasingly shape our lives.”
What was particularly important was that it shows “how mathematical models which affect real life decision making are subject to change when the assumptions and parameters behind them change, and so the uncertainties and the challenges of using data to reach conclusions.”
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