Statistics in the news
Commentary on the use of statistics
in the news media and public debate
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Commentaries
Links
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(Penumbra),
a group of statisticians who comment on statistical issues in the news.
Features many excellent comments on news stories (mostly in French).
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A course to help students become more
informed, critical readers of current news stories that use
probability and statistics. Run at Dartmouth University (USA).
Puts out an excellent regular newsletter
for high school students , Chance News,
which discusses (American) news stories.
Chance News is available on the website, along with
videos, audios and teaching aids.
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Bad Statistics Shame Science, report of an article
on shonky numbers in scientific publications
- On Simpson's Paradox:
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some Australian newspapers:
- some Australian television/radio stations:
Disclaimer
This website offers commentary on the use of statistics in the media,
and on statistical issues which arise in media reports.
It relies in good faith upon the information published in the media reports.
In the event that the media reports cited here actually
misquote the original source, please contact the site coordinator,
Adrian Baddeley
at adrian@maths.uwa.edu.au.
The commentaries are written by professional statisticians,
but without access to the original data, study, or findings
to which the media reports allude.
Consequently they cannot and do not claim to give a full and correct analysis
of the original data.
The commentaries are the opinions of the authors only,
and do not necessarily represent the views of The University
of Western Australia.
Web page author: Adrian Baddeley