2020 has been an extraordinary year in every sense of the word. Many of you got a tough lesson in resilience with your research plan being interrupted or even obliterated due to extreme weather or pandemic. Some may have taken the time to use this forced pause to upskill and we have certainly been encouraged […]
November is Academic Writing Month at ANU. No better time thus to put the translation process of data to words in the spotlight. “The secret language of statistics, so appealing in a fact minded culture, is employed to sensationalise, inflate, confuse, and oversimplify. Statistical methods and statistical terms are necessary in reporting the mass data […]
Today is World Statistics Day 2020! Now, I can hear you think: Is there a day for statistics? Like, really?? Surely this is only celebrated by statisticians a.k.a. old grey bearded men? Thankfully we are long past the time when checking the box for sporting a grey beard was required to obtain the qualification of […]