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LATEST ISSUE
May 2024 volume 21 issue 2
NOTEBOOK
News
Information environment studies, California and descendants of slavery, CHAI, fertility rates and more
Puzzle
The Case of the Green Cane of Kabul
Plus the solution to “The Battle of Mount Badon”
Editorial
How to talk so people will listen
PERSPECTIVES
Writing competition launch
It’s that time of year again! Enter our Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing
The philosophy of statistics
Understanding the philosophical foundation of probability and statistics
Bad stats
A new regular series revisiting well-known statistical screw-ups
Book review
Knowledge Resistance in High Choice Information Environments edited by Jesper Strömbäck et al.
Letters
Feedback from Significance readers
Crossword
Stop it!, by Sam Buttrey
Plus the solution to last issue’s crossword
Questions answered
Meet Australian statistician and QUT professor Adrian Barnett
STATSCOMM
Show and tell: stats communication special
Hear from three skilled stats communicators about their work and how they get through to their audiences
FEATURES
The R number
The second in our six-part series by Gavin Freeguard on the evolution and usefulness of the pandemic’s famous epidemiological tool
What is data science?
The burning question, inspected through a statistical lens
The thirteenth floor
Buildings in New York City often don’t have a thirteenth floor
– superstition, or something else?
Medical statisticians
Are they really playing “second fiddle” to clinicians?
Household Costs Indices
A new way of measuring people’s experiences of inflation
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