Today we are announcing the finalists of the 2021 Statistical Excellence Award for Early-Career Writing,…
Brian TarranJuly 8, 2021
Photo by Tedward Quinn on UnsplashOn 11 March 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared…
Simon Schwab and Leonhard HeldMay 8, 2020
Statisticians have a crucial role to play in ensuring fairness and justice in the legal…
Kelly H. ZouApril 9, 2019
In 2019, Significance is looking to introduce a new regular feature that offers readers a…
Brian TarranJanuary 30, 2019
Back in the 1990s, British miners were fighting for compensation for diseases linked to coal…
Jonny JacobsenOctober 8, 2018
On the morning of 8 November 2016, many Americans went to bed confident that Hillary…
Josh Pasek and Michael TraugottSeptember 27, 2018
Poor practice is catching up with science,1-3 manifesting in part in the failure of results…
Philip B. Stark and Andrea SaltelliJuly 5, 2018
Facebook makes most of its money from advertising, and – as the Cambridge Analytica scandal…
Gráinne Maedhbh Nic LochlainnApril 5, 2018
“General election polls in 2015 ‘the most inaccurate’,” said the BBC. “Polling shake-up planned after…
Brian TarranApril 5, 2016
In September 2015, the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) International Agency for Research in Cancer (IARC)…
David SpiegelhalterJanuary 29, 2016
Contrary to popular opinion, we have witnessed a fall in many types of crime over…
Rebecca ThompsonOctober 21, 2014
Solly Zuckerman (pictured) was meticulous in measuring things to assemble evidence when there was none,…
Thomas KingOctober 17, 2013
Can statistics save your life? Well, Google certainly thinks it can. Moreover, the company has…
Carlos Alberto Gómez GrajalesSeptember 30, 2013
You have no doubt heard the legend about the Native American tribe being seduced by…
Altea Lorenzo-ArribasAugust 16, 2013
The United States is experiencing an epidemic of sexual violence. New findings from the National…
Stephanie KovalchikJanuary 6, 2012
