Hundreds of people have been killed since the start of the year as a result…
Brian TarranAugust 25, 2016
Significance is Chicago-bound this weekend to take part in the annual Joint Statistical Meetings. We…
Brian TarranJuly 26, 2016
England fans might have been disappointed to see their football team crash out of the…
Brian TarranJune 30, 2016
It has been four years since sport last graced the cover of our print magazine.…
Brian TarranJune 8, 2016
For our latest 'Ask a statistician' column, the Year 6 children of Milwards Primary School…
Brian TarranMay 4, 2016
Our US readers will be aware that April is Mathematics Awareness Month (MAM) – and…
Brian TarranApril 11, 2016
“General election polls in 2015 ‘the most inaccurate’,” said the BBC. “Polling shake-up planned after…
Brian TarranApril 5, 2016
Robin Bray-Hurren, a calligrapher and printmaker from South London, asks: "In order for McDonald’s to…
Brian TarranMarch 1, 2016
On 23 June, the United Kingdom will vote on whether to remain a member of…
Brian TarranFebruary 25, 2016
You’ve probably noticed that things look a little different here. To coincide with the start…
Brian TarranFebruary 16, 2016
If you haven’t played Guess The Correlation yet, you definitely should – but please read…
Brian TarranFebruary 9, 2016
In the second instalment of our new 'Ask A Statistician' column, Peter McIntyre, a pharmaceutical…
Brian TarranJanuary 5, 2016
Before joining Significance, I spent more than a decade reporting on the market research and…
Brian TarranNovember 24, 2015
People often feel less safe when walking in the dark, for understandable reasons. It’s harder…
Brian TarranNovember 17, 2015
Henry Cole, a 17-year-old student, asks: "Almost every day on the news there is a…
Brian TarranOctober 26, 2015
James Skeffington was today announced as the winner of the 2015 Young Statisticians Writing Competition…
Brian TarranSeptember 9, 2015
In a 2010 New York Times column, mathematician John Allen Paulos wrote about stories and…
Brian TarranAugust 12, 2015
