SignificancePub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmad080
Johnny Runge
{"title":"“This should be a wake-up call”: How to improve people's faith in economic statistics","authors":"Johnny Runge","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmad080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmad080","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Johnny Runge has used qualitative methods, such as interviews, focus groups and surveys, to explore public perceptions of the economy – and discovered sobering levels of misunderstanding and distrust","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135605330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmad072
Michael Fletcher
{"title":"Puzzle","authors":"Michael Fletcher","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmad072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmad072","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Puzzle Get access Michael Fletcher Michael Fletcher Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Significance, Volume 20, Issue 5, October 2023, Page 4, https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmad072 Published: 06 October 2023","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135605338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2023-10-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmad078
Ian Brunton-Smith, Alexandru Cernat, David Buil-Gil, Jose Pina-Sànchez
{"title":"Measuring crime in place: Distinguishing between area victimisation and area offences","authors":"Ian Brunton-Smith, Alexandru Cernat, David Buil-Gil, Jose Pina-Sànchez","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmad078","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmad078","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Crime data is essential to the running of a safe society. But are we measuring crime in the best way? Ian Brunton-Smith, Alexandru Cernat, David Buil-Gil and Jose Pina-Sánchez explore how the current system could be improved","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135605912","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmad059
Fengnan Gao, Richard D Gill
{"title":"A very Dutch scandal","authors":"Fengnan Gao, Richard D Gill","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmad059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmad059","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Fengnan Gao and Richard D. Gill gut and de-bone the questionable statistics that destroyed a long-running culinary tradition","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45176434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmad063
S. Stoudt
{"title":"Can TV make you a better stats communicator?","authors":"S. Stoudt","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmad063","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmad063","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Sara Stoudt explains how to glean presentation tips from the small screen and win over even the most statistics-anxious audience","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43838783","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmad065
A. Lorenzo-Arribas
{"title":"Millicent Fawcett and Eleanor Rathbone The Royal Statistical Society suffragists","authors":"A. Lorenzo-Arribas","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmad065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmad065","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Around a century ago, the fifth and ninth women ever to join the RSS fought to ensure the members their sex would no longer be an “unknown quantity”. Altea Lorenzo-Arribas shines a light on their lives, careers and vital contribution to history","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47487842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmad062
D. Danny
{"title":"World population projections: Just little bits of history repeating?","authors":"D. Danny","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmad062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmad062","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The world population is expected to peak in the summer of 2086. But do the official United Nations estimates give enough consideration to human behaviour? Danny Dorling gives his verdict","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47840388","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmad056
J. Prats
{"title":"Hot, hotter, hottest?","authors":"J. Prats","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmad056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmad056","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Extreme value theory (EVT) uses the historical record to predict which parts of the world can expect exceptional heatwaves, so that policy-makers can try to mitigate the impact. But as statistically implausible heatwaves hit countries across the world, asks Jordi Prats, can EVT still be relied on to keep people safe?","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48459279","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
SignificancePub Date : 2023-08-01DOI: 10.1093/jrssig/qmad066
Servan Grüninger
{"title":"Stefano Franscini: The statistician who built a nation","authors":"Servan Grüninger","doi":"10.1093/jrssig/qmad066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/jrssig/qmad066","url":null,"abstract":"Modern Switzerland was founded 175 years ago. However, despite being connected by a constitution, the new country remained divided by language, religion, and history – a state but not a nation. It is thanks to the statistician and politician Stefano Franscini that statistics came to play an important role in forging a common Swiss identity. Servan Grüninger tells his story","PeriodicalId":35454,"journal":{"name":"Significance","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45255923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}