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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

We interview the vice president of methods and innovation at the leading US “fact-tank”

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