Out now: Significance November 2024

The November issue of Significance has been released and is available to read online. Next month's magazine explores how statisticians that step out of their comfort zone can have a huge impact on the world around them, including by uncovering evidence of early human activity in the Amazon rainforest. 

November 2024 issue highlights:

Uncovering Amazonia
Statistics helps discover the truth about ancient human life in the Amazon rainforest
 
Use of force in prisons                                               
Exploring the rise in use of force in California’s high-security prisons
 
Helping the state lottery                                                          
What happened when a statistician spotted a mistake on the state lottery payslip?
 
History’s lessons for AI                                              
How can AI developers learn from early statistics pioneers?
 
What’s in a name?                                                                     
The winning entry in our writing competition explores data linkage with the help of Arnold Schwarzenegger
 
Bad stats
Our new regular series revisiting well-known statistical screw-ups.
This issue: Danish sunbathers and immortal time bias
 
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