Advice when looking at stats


What advice would you give when looking at statistics? We posed that question to several of the speakers appearing at our 2021 Annual Conference. Here are their responses:
 

Jennifer Rogers

VP, Statistical Research & Consultancy at Phastar

Liam Brierley

MRC fellow at the Institute of Population Health, University of Liverpool

Anthony Masters

RSS Statistics ambassador and co-author of 'Covid by Numbers'

Catey Bunce

RSS statistical Ambassador and applied medical statistician working at the NHS

Tom Chivers

Science editor at Unherd and co-author of 'How to read numbers'

Rob Mastrodomenico

RSS statistics ambassador and statistical consultant

Dave Chivers

Assistant professor of economics at University of Durham and co-author of 'How to read numbers'