The dark side of data “He’s got fancy charts. He must be right.” Trevor Butterworth “Complete bollox—does that phrase translate here?” — David Spiegelhalter, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk in the Statistical Laboratory at...
To understand the motivations of Paul Thacker it may help to read a profile written of him by his former editor at Audubon Magazine, and an adjunct journalism professor at New York University: “The Once Promising Journalist Who Became a Sadistic Troll.” It describes a...
Nearly two decades ago, Christie Aschwanden, currently the lead writer for science at FiveThirtyEight, began her journey to becoming a “stats nerd.” Little did she know that during that journey some would consider her a character on the side of evil Armed with a...
By Elizabeth Schiavoni, a freelance medical and science writer. “The data was telling a story the public needed to hear…,” Dr. June Chang tells me as we discuss the groundbreaking clinical trial program she worked on throughout the early 1990s. “Thinking about...
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