Statistics

The Public’s Statistics Should Serve, Well, the Public
Industry
August 15, 2024

The Public’s Statistics Should Serve, Well, the Public

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Paper Opening Science to the New Statistics Proves Its Import a Decade Later
Impact
July 2, 2024

Paper Opening Science to the New Statistics Proves Its Import a Decade Later

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2024 Joint Statistical Meeting
Event
June 27, 2024

2024 Joint Statistical Meeting

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Gamification as an Effective Instructional Strategy
Business and Management INK
September 19, 2023

Gamification as an Effective Instructional Strategy

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Our Study Finds Women Are Better at Statistics Than They Think

Our Study Finds Women Are Better at Statistics Than They Think

Women in statistics classes do better academically than men over a semester despite having more negative attitudes regarding their own abilities, according to our recent study.

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Event: Value of Science: Data, Products and Use

Event: Value of Science: Data, Products and Use

Join the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics and the Coleridge Initiative for a two-day conference to advance understanding of the […]

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Making Sense of Data in the 2019 General Election

Making Sense of Data in the 2019 General Election

Statistics are not the final objective answer to things. They can be interpreted in lots of different ways, even when none of those ways is wrong per se. That opens up a space for public debate, which is good news, but it also opens up a space where statistics can either be lauded as the truth (when they are not), or dismissed out of hand as ‘biased’.

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10 Reasons to Study Statistics

10 Reasons to Study Statistics

Professor of sociology and criminal justice, Ronet D. Bachman uses statistics and research methods to investigate topics in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. The knowledge gained can be applied to everyday life to help us become better students, citizens, critical thinkers, job applicants and decision makers.

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Pair to Receive Economic Statistics’ Shiskin Award 

Pair to Receive Economic Statistics’ Shiskin Award 

Barry Bosworth, the Robert V. Roosa Chair in International Economics at the Brookings Institution, and Danny Pfeffermann, director of Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics, will receive the 2018 Julius Shiskin Memorial Award for Economic Statistics.

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David Spiegelhalter on Communicating Statistics

David Spiegelhalter on Communicating Statistics

While they aren’t as unpopular as politicians or journalists, people who work with statistics come in for their share of abuse. “Figures lie and liars figure,” goes one maxim. And don’t forget, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” But some people are the good guys, doing their best to combat the flawed or dishonest use of numbers. One of those good guys is the guest of this Social Science Bites podcast, David Spiegelhalter, professor of the public understanding of risk at Cambridge and current president of the Royal Statistical Society.

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The Gentle Guide: Neil Salkind, 1947-2017

The Gentle Guide: Neil Salkind, 1947-2017

Neil Salkind, a child development psychologist whose academic writing endeared him to generations of students struggling with statistics, has died at age 70. Salkind, a professor emeritus at the University of Kansas, died from melanoma at his home in Lawrence, Kansas on November 18.

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Honoring Two Unsung Heroes of the Federal Statistical System

Honoring Two Unsung Heroes of the Federal Statistical System

Howard Silver looks at two distinguished individuals who have toiled for long periods of time in an area that receives attention only from those who understand the importance of data and statistics to the well-being of a democratic state

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