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U-shaped happiness curve, the “Huber mean”, autism-biome studies, ONS cuts and more

Puzzle

The 2025 Ryder Cup
Plus the solution to “Play or pass”

Editorial

Happy new year!

PERSPECTIVES
Leadership skills for statisticians and data scientists 

How to step away from the spreadsheet and become a leader

Bad stats

This issue: choosing the best model is hard

Cartoon & From the archive
Book review

Speak Data by Giorgia Lupi and Phillip Cox, reviewed by Nicola Rennie

Letters

Significance readers respond

Crossword

Jane Austen, by Sam Buttrey. Plus the solution to last issue’s crossword

STATSCOMM
Medicine labelling

How efficacy descriptions could be improved

FEATURES

Does Santa Claus exist? 

Will a statistical analysis of gift choices tell us the truth?

Taylor Swift’s “Eras” wardrobe 

Two fans explore links between costume colour and the pop superstar’s setlist

LLM “metalinguistic” capabilities 

An overview of the latest AI talking point

Mass shootings

Exploring the impact of mental health and gun ownership on the frequency of deadly events

Climate change: pattern scaling

An explainer

Education “miracles”

Why we must take tales of dramatic improvement with a pinch of statistical salt

PROFILES
Questions answered

Meet ANZJS editor-in-chief Samuel Muller

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