Charting chance

摘要

Risk is a constant in our lives, permeating everything from allowing your child to walk to school alone to snow-boarding late in the season. Risk Lab, the new exhibition at Dublin's ever-inventive Science Gallery, offers ample opportunities to explore this nexus of psychology and statistics.Enter the exhibition's geeked-up casino and venture into the world of scientific gambling, with gallery staff on hand to help with the maths. Downstairs, you can puzzle out probabilities by playing roulette and poker or taking in themed artworks, such as one that challenges you to spot a non-random pattern among nine pictures of coloured squares. Upstairs, computers mocked up as slot machines offer psychological tests in a variety of activities that feature a large element of risk.