Presentation presentation presentation. Will they ever get THE
PRESENTATION right should be the question. Grrrr.....

I agree, Dave. It's something I tend to go banging on about rather a
lot, but as the actual science slowly improves all the time the presentation is
slapdash. Part of the problem is the "dumbed down" assumption whereby the
audience is not thought able to take in such sophisticated concepts as
probability. But it would be honest, and in the long run beneficial, if people
were reminded that forecasting is not an exact science.

Tudor Hughes, Warlingham, Surrey.