5 minutes with: Anna Lawlor
Anna Lawlor is a British financial journalist and broadcaster. Her first radio documentary – Typical!…
Anna BrittenOctober 16, 2023
Has English league football become less exciting?
Bill Shankly, a former manager of Liverpool Football Club, once said: “Some people believe football…
The evolution of the endemic stage of the Covid-19 outbreak in Italy during summer 2020
Photo by Gabriella Clare Marino on UnsplashItaly was the first European country to suffer a…
Robbayes-C19November 5, 2020
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on Italian mobility
Photo by David T on UnsplashThe pandemic of coronavirus disease (Covid-19) triggered by the SARS-CoV-2…
Francesco Finazzi and Alessandro FassòApril 16, 2020
You can trust the polls in 2018, if you read them carefully
On the morning of 8 November 2016, many Americans went to bed confident that Hillary…
Josh Pasek and Michael TraugottSeptember 27, 2018
An average understanding
In "The Shock of the Mean" (Significance, December 2017) I explained how, far from being…
Simon RaperDecember 5, 2017
The joy of clustering
In April 2014, FiveThirtyEight published a statistical analysis of the paintings of Bob Ross. Journalist…
Samantha TynerNovember 11, 2015
Who will win the Rugby World Cup?
As Yogi Berra, once said: ‘It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future’. Like…
Niven WinchesterAugust 27, 2015
How do you measure disaster risk?
In September this year, the UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) will come to an end…
Julia HallAugust 25, 2015
How to identify goal scoring ability in football
The transfer market in football is a strange beast. For anyone who doesn't know how…
Ian McHale & Łukasz SzczepańskiAugust 19, 2015
House prices: regional variations and the impact of Help-to-Buy
'House prices in England and Wales hit record high’ ran a headline from last month…
Oz FlanaganAugust 14, 2015
Too many flats, not enough houses? The geography of London’s new housing
The UK is currently experiencing climbing property prices and a growing housing demand coupled with…
Alasdair RaeJuly 9, 2015
Is India’s heatwave a freak event?
A heatwave over India that started on May 21 and has produced India’s highest recorded…
Hugo WinterJune 2, 2015
(Un)representative democracy: where are all the female candidates?
Image: Catherine Bebbington/Parliamentary Copyright. Parliamentary Copyright images are reproduced with the permission of Parliament.In a…
Mario Cortina BorjaApril 25, 2015
Return of the mean: the historical cost of filling the tank
Drivers have been rejoicing since the start of the year at the plummeting price of…
Oz FlanaganJanuary 22, 2015
Is prostitution really worth £5.7 billion a year?
The EU has demanded rapid payment of £1.7 billion from the UK because our economy…
David SpiegelhalterOctober 27, 2014
House prices: statistics, politics and human behaviour
‘UK house prices rose by 8% in the year’ is the latest startling headline following…
Oz FlanaganMay 30, 2014
Frog kissing. Or, why do we never learn?
A friend pointed me to this story about the average number of men (or rather…
Robin EvansFebruary 14, 2014
Scientific inquiry into poetry
In a recent article I reported the results of the internet-test, where the takers had…
Mikhail SimkinJune 24, 2013
A scientific evaluation of Charles Dickens
Previously I discussed1 my experiment that tested whether people can tell the masterpieces of abstract…
Mikhail SimkinMarch 21, 2013
