We’re delighted to announce that the July issue of Significance magazine is now out and available for RSS members to read online. This issue explores fascinating insights from Google search data, including what our online behaviour reveals about how we think about death.
It also features a light-hearted but rigorous look at the “beer mile” – the unusual global challenge combining running and drinking – offering an intriguing example of statistical modelling with limited data.
July 2026 issue highlights:
Beer mile
A statistical analysis of a growing new sport
Prison remand
How the inappropriate use of remand to prison custody
in England and Wales is ruining lives and wasting money
Mass shootings
The complex web of factors behind mass public shootings
What is kurtosis?
Even stats textbooks get it wrong. A brilliant explanation of an often bamboozling statistical measure
Interview: Simon Rogers
The Google data editor on what we search for, and what it says about us
The storytelling fallacy
The perils of overselling a method’s performance using real data examples
Bad stats
This issue: “promiscuous dichotomisation” and why sugar doesn’t cause herpes
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