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Source: Significance - May 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Brian Tarran Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
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Big telescopes: The story behind a story of discrimination in science
For many years, women astronomers were not permitted to use the world's biggest telescopes. Elizabeth L. Scott used this story to get people to pay attention to her statistics on the status of women in academia, asAmanda L. Golbeck explains (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - May 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Amanda L. Golbeck Tags: Statscomm Source Type: research
Did “Trumpists” perform worse in US Senate election polls?
Support for Donald Trump was underestimated by pre-election polls in 2016 and 2020. In a new analysis,Sina Chen andJohn K örtner examine Senate pre-election polls and results for the years 2018 and 2020 to see how Trump-endorsed candidates fared compared to other Republican candidates (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - May 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Sina Chen,
John K örtner Tags: Features Source Type: research
Women of Significance?
Significance bills itself as “a magazine about statistics and data science, written by experts for everyone”. But too few of its featured experts are women, as an analysis byKaren Lamb, Jessica Kasza, Sophie Calabretto, Rushani Wijesuriya andLinda McIver shows (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - May 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Karen Lamb,
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Linda McIver Tags: Features Source Type: research
Don't ask, just listen … Using social networks to measure subjective well‐being
How do people feel about their lives and the societies in which they live? Are they happy, hopeful or concerned about the future? Surveys can help answer these questions, butStefano M. Iacus andGiuseppe Porro argue for using social networks and sentiment analysis to let citizens speak for themselves (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - May 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Stefano M. Iacus,
Giuseppe Porro Tags: Features Source Type: research
A confusion of curves
Francis Galton was beguiled by the normal distribution, believing it could split the natural world into a spectrum of types – with each type represented by its own “bell curve”. But he was wrong in this belief, and his ideas for separating and shifting the bell curves of human types helped pave a dark path. BySimon Raper (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - May 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Simon Raper Tags: Features Source Type: research
College entrance exams: A modern “shibboleth”?
The Covid-19 pandemic led many US colleges to drop requirements for admissions tests.Daniel Robinson andHoward Wainer consider what the consequences of this decision might be – for students and universities (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - May 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Daniel Robinson,
Howard Wainer Tags: Features Source Type: research
In conversation with a digital optimist
AuthorSam Gilbert argues for the benefits of data openness and data-driven advertising (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - May 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Sam Gilbert Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
Unanswered questions in the p ‐value debate
A statement onp-values and statistical significance by the ASA president's task force fails to tackle two crucial questions, saysNorbert Hirschauer (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - May 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Authors: Norbert Hirschauer Tags: Perspectives Source Type: research
Georgiou takes case to European Court of Human Rights
Former national statistician of Greece, Andreas Georgiou, claims right to fair trial was violated (Source: Significance)
Source: Significance - May 25, 2022 Category: Statistics Tags: Notebook Source Type: research
Questions answered: Anna Britten
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