Contingencies, March/April 2020
In the March/April issue of Contingencies, the cover story, “Crowdsourcing Medicine,” investigates what happens when more people—even those without medical training—lend a hand with diagnosis and other aspects of medicine. Other features include “To the Summit,” which looks at how mountaineering and actuarial science overlap; “Underwriting 2.0,” on how Big Data and other elements of data science can be used to help support risk assessment; and “Russell,” an original work fiction that considers an unlikely relationship set in the present ... and an uncertain future. Plus, D. Joeff Williams’s President’s Message on how the Academy builds on the past; all about actuarial assumptions in “Up to Code”; and a Job Seeker special: 20 commandments any applicant should consider.