This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx

At TEDxCanberra 2012, Nobel Prize for Physics recipient, Professor Brian Schmidt, provides a live, engaging and practical demonstration of just how uncertainty works in the real world.

With a little help from some students in the audience, Professor Schmidt explains how uncertainty operates in our daily lives, including inaccurate media coverage of political polling and efforts to understand climate change.