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LATEST ISSUE
July 2025 volume 22 issue 4
NOTEBOOK
News
ONS chief quits, Pope Leo, Grace Wahba, Sullivan Review and more
Puzzle
A tribute to John Haigh
Plus the solution to “An evening of bridge”
Editorial
The statistics of success
PERSPECTIVES
Patient and public involvement
Is there any point in involving members of the public in your highly technical statistical methodology research?
Gunshot detection technology
Analysing data to interrogate the claims of a controversial US gunshot detection system
Physics and stats
Why physicists make exceptional data scientists
Bad stats
Our regular series revisiting well-known statistical screw-ups. This issue: base-rate fallacy
Book review
Florence Nightingale David by Amanda L. Golbeck, reviewed by James J. Cochran
Letters
Feedback from Significance readers
Crossword
Easy as…, by Sam Buttrey. Plus the solution to last issue’s crossword
Questions answered
Meet Marcia Philbin, chief executive of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine
STATSCOMM
Author Georgina Sturge
The data analyst and author discusses the riveting history of British official statistics
FEATURES
Broadway musicals
How hard is it really to make money on Broadway?
Chinese astrology
The effect of dragon and snake years on marriages and birth
PROFILES
Pew Research Center’s Courtney Kennedy
PROFILES
We interview the vice president of methods and innovation at the leading US “fact-tank”
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