How to read statistics (and knowing when to trust them) |Tom Chivers

Tom is science editor for the digital news magazine UnHerd. His writing has featured in The Guardian, Telegraph, New Scientist and BuzzFeed. He covers an array of subjects, mostly science, but he also delves into politics, foreign affairs, sport, culture wars - pretty much anything that piques his interest. He's won two statistical excellence in journalism awards from the Royal Statistical Society, but he's not stopping there. He wants all journalists and consumers of news to share his appreciation for numbers and to learn how to use them.

In this episode of Research Comms Tom Chivers talks about the media during the pandemic, about the pre-requisites for journalism and the tension between attracting a readership and writing serious news stories and he discusses his book How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)

Presented by Peter Barker

Produced by Orinoco Communications

www.orinococomms.com

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LINKS

• Tom’s website

• Tom’s work on UnHerd

• How to Read Numbers: A Guide to Stats in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them)