Measuring the Middle Ages
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Source: Significance - July 27, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: James T. Walker,
John S. Lee,
Stephen Broadberry Tags: Features Source Type: research
University league tables have no legs to stand on
What really makes one higher education institution “better” than another? The ranking of the world's universities is big business built on a flimsy statistical approach, sayAdrian Barnett andElizabeth Gadd (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - July 27, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Adrian Barnett,
Elizabeth Gadd Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
Full moons and forking paths
The claim that fatal motorcycle accidents are more likely when there is a full moon is a compelling example of what Gelman and Loken call a “garden of forking paths”.Gary Smith finds that, under a variety of assumptions, the number of accidents and fatalities on full-moon nights is not unusually large at all (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - July 27, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Gary Smith Tags: Features Source Type: research
The real scale of domestic violence during Covid ‐19
Victims of domestic abuse may struggle to contact the police. But theyare likely to seek help on the internet. By using internet search data to measure domestic violence during the Covid-19 pandemic,Dan Anderberg, Helmut Rainer andFabian Siuda found an increase several times larger than that suggested in official police records (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - July 27, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Dan Anderberg,
Helmut Rainer,
Fabian Siuda Tags: Features Source Type: research
Canine confounders
Did the dogs of Mexico City really stop their owners dying rom Covid-19?Isaac N úñez shares an astonishing tale of causal questions, selection bias and confounding (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - July 27, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Isaac N úñez Tags: Features Source Type: research
Do surveys change behaviours?
It is well known that being observed can change our behaviour.Alexandru Cernat andFlorian Keusch used digital trace data to see whether taking part in multiple political surveys made participants more interested in news and politics (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - July 27, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Alexandru Cernat,
Florian Keusch Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
Statistics in a civil war
Ukraine is not the only country whose health-care system has been ravaged by conflict. Here,Mulugeta Gebregziabher andJames J. Cochran describe the huge challenges of gathering reliable data on the catastrophic effect of civil war in Tigray, Ethiopia (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - July 27, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Mulugeta Gebregziabher,
James J. Cochran Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
My prostate predictions
WhenJames Rothman was prescribed the drug bicalutamide to manage his cancer, he decided to put his decades of statistical experience to good use. But what would his doctor think? (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - July 27, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: James Rothman Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
“Statisticians are particularly attuned to the beauty of uncertainty”
Data visualisation fans will need no introduction to David McCandless, data journalist and author of the bestselling booksInformation is Beautiful andKnowledge is Beautiful as well as, most recently,Beautiful News. He is also one of the media's most called-upon advocates for statistics as art, and tellsAnna Britten about his process, data viz heroes and why communication is all about context (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - July 27, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Anna Britten Tags: Statscomm Source Type: research
Puzzle
Choosing a husband (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - July 27, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Michael Fletcher Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
Questions answered: Raghib Ali
The epidemiologist has just been awarded an OBE in the Queen's Platinum Jubilee Birthday Honours for his work on the disproportionate impact of Covid-19 on ethnic minorities, and increasing vaccine uptake in those groups. (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - July 27, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
Women of Significance
Last issue revealed the disappointing lack of gender diversity inSignificance articles. Here, editorAnna Britten shares the response of the editorial board to these findings (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - July 27, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Anna Britten Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
Making the invisible visible
GeographerJames Cheshire talks about his latest book – an atlas that sets out to reveal “the invisible patterns that shape our lives” (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - June 7, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Brian Tarran Tags: Statscomm Source Type: research
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Source: Significance - May 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Contents Source Type: research
