Gaza and Sudan death tolls, Office for National Statistics, US vaccination rates and more
We launch this year’s Significance Statistical Excellence Award for Early Career Writing
The wisdom of crowds
Plus the solution to “Return of the dreaded lurgy”
Can data prevent conflict?
Our regular series revisiting well-known statistical screw-ups. This issue: Pierre-Simon Laplace and how errors are unavoidable
The History of Correlation, reviewed by Colin Beveridge
Feedback from Significance readers
Welcome, by Sam Buttrey. Plus the solution to last issue’s crossword
Meet the creator of the popular Quantum of Sollazzo newsletter
The UK’s only professors of statistical literacy on why the world needs good data storytellers
How having only a small percentage difference in points can make you a sporting icon
An overview of the historical links between diagnosis and mental health statistics
Our cover feature on how new data sources can help us measure the effects of violent conflict
What do you do if the data seems too good to be true?
A fresh take on the statistics textbook standard
The first in an occasional series of climate change explainers
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