EDITOR’S PICK
Contribute
You could be a professor at a renowned university, a statistician working in industry, or a statistics undergrad: whatever your background, we are looking for writers with a passion for statistics and an ability to tell an interesting, insightful story.
LATEST ISSUE
March 2025 volume 22 issue 2
NOTEBOOK
News
Gaza and Sudan death tolls, Office for National Statistics, US vaccination rates and more
Writing competition
We launch this year’s Significance Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing
Puzzle
The wisdom of crowds
Plus the solution to “Return of the dreaded lurgy”
Editorial
Can data prevent conflict?
PERSPECTIVES
Bad stats
Our regular series revisiting well-known statistical screw-ups. This issue: Pierre-Simon Laplace and how errors are unavoidable
Book review
The History of Correlation, reviewed by Colin Beveridge
Letters
Feedback from Significance readers
Crossword
Welcome, by Sam Buttrey. Plus the solution to last issue’s crossword
Questions answered
Meet the creator of the popular Quantum of Sollazzo newsletter
STATSCOMM
Statistical literacy
The UK’s only professors of statistical literacy on why the world needs good data storytellers
FEATURES
Point win percentage in tennis
How having only a small percentage difference in points can make you a sporting icon
Psychiatric classification
An overview of the historical links between diagnosis and mental health statistics
Gathering data in a war
Our cover feature on how new data sources can help us measure the effects of violent conflict
Fitting a hypothesis too well
What do you do if the data seems too good to be true?
Prussian army deaths by horse kick: the sequel!
A fresh take on the statistics textbook standard
The 1.5°C global mean warming target
The first in an occasional series of climate change explainers
RECENT ISSUES
