Laura Dattaro writes about the establishment of a volunteer board of statisticians to give journalists advice on mathematical and statistical issues via Stats.org: "When a science journalist on a deadline hears a researcher cured cancer, and the paper — if she has time to read the paper — is filled with subtly distorted graphs, she often has to take the researcher’s word for it." Also, a upcoming MOOC on math for journalists.
May 27, 2015
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