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Stats + Stories
Statistics need Stories to give them meaning. Stories need Statistics to give them credibility. Every Thursday John Bailer & Rosemary Pennington get together with a new, interesting guest to bring you the Statistics behind the Stories and the Stories behind the Statistics.
Episodes
Stats + StoriesData Science Pedagogy | Stats + Stories Episode 253
In the past, Introduction to Statistics classes spent a lot of time covering distribution tables, teaching students to run stats by hand and focusing on…
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Political Statistics Beyond Polling | Stats + Stories Episode 252
Each election cycle experts appear in the news talking about polling data. Many of these experts are political scientists and are often the only contact…
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The Career of the Chief Demographer of the U.S. Census | Stats + Stories Episode 251
Demographers study the way populations change. The things they might focus on include births and deaths, living conditions, and age distributions. In the…
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Statistics Behind the Headlines Contest | Stats + Stories Episode 250
Submit your entry into the Stats+Stories 250th episode celebration contest via email at statsandstories@miamioh.edu or on Twitter by following @statsandstories…
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Conducting a National Survey | Stats + Stories Episode 249
What is the nutritional status of children in your town? How many tourism and hospitality companies are in your community? Answering these questions at a small…
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The Etymology of the Word Statistics | Stats + Stories Episode 248
In the late 1600s, a book was published satirizing politics in Europe. Published two decades after the end of the 30 Years' War, it focuses on the power of the…
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Inclusive Data Collection | Stats + Stories Episode 247
Measurement accuracy is something all quantitative researchers strive for, as you want to make sure you're measuring what you want to be measuring. When it…
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The Third Thirty Years of Life | Stats + Stories Episode 246
Retirement is a threshold - crossing a finish line of sorts. As a new emeritus professor. this is at the front of my mind. Our guest today knows and has…
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A Dog’s Impact on Loneliness | Stats + Stories Episode 245
At the COVID pandemic’s seeming height, social media were filled with images and stories of people adopting pets. Individuals who might not have had time for a…
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The Impact of College Vaccine Mandates | Stats + Stories Episode 244
Last academic year colleges and universities across the US struggled with whether to mandate COVID vaccinations for their students. While colleges often…
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A Half Century of Worker Health | Stats + Stories Episode 243
Some important milestones have passed during the pandemic blur of the last few years. The 50th anniversary of the National Institute for Occupational Safety…
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Glass Ceilings in Academia | Stats + Stories Episode 199 (REPOST)
New episodes of Stats+Stories return next week! The tenure track process at American universities is a grind – one shaped by the old adage to “Publish or…
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To P, or Not to P, That is the Question | Stats + Stories Episode 194 (REPOST)
For years now, the utility of the P-value in scientific and statistical research has been under scrutiny – the debate shaped by concerns about the seeming…
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Benford's Law and Election Fraud | Stats + Stories Episode 242
The issue of voter fraud has taken up increasing amounts of the public's imagination since the 2020 election. Spurred in part by claims from former U. S…
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Anti-Racist Advocacy | Stats + Stories Episode 241
Since the summer of Black Lives Matter in 2020, institutions all over the U.S. have been exploring their pasts. In order to understand how they may have…
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Epidemiological BRIDGE Building | Stats + Stories Episode 240
Health research is complicated, no matter the scale or the scope. Global health research, however, brings with it particular issues. For the last decade…
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Signing Statistics | Stats + Stories Episode 239
What is a median? How about an interquartile range? Don’t even get me started on how to define a p-value. These statistical concepts are hard to grasp for your…
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Popping Filter Bubbles | Stats + Stories Episode 238
Have you ever wondered why a search engine result for undocumented workers in North Carolina provides links to worker rights sites, while a search for illegal…
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The Numbers Behind America’s Pastime | Stats + Stories Episode 177 (Repost)
Enjoy this reposted episode from last Spring about the history of Baseball while we take off the July 4th Holiday in the U.S. Much of the United States is…
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Listening Before Communicating Risk | Stats + Stories Episode 237
What do farmers in Kenya, fishers in the Philippines and teenagers in Boston have in common? They all need to balance risks when making decisions ranging from…
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The Numbers Behind a World Cup Bid | Stats + Stories Episode 236
What does 2022 have in common with 2018 and 2026? What is special about 2023? These years include a month where work productivity will be reduced in many…
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Introducing Our New Guest Host | A Special Stats + Stories Episode
In this special episode of Stats+Stories we announce our new guest host Regina Nuzzo, a professor at Gallaudet University and freelance Science writer, who…
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Becoming a Medical Statistician | Stats + Short Stories Episode 235
Erik van Zwet (@erikvanzwet) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Data Sciences of the Leiden University Medical Center where he has been…
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Big, If True | Stats + Stories Episode 234
Most articles that appear in academic journals are kind of mundane in that they’re extending the work of scholars who have come before, or sometimes taking an…
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The Aging American Workforce | Stats + Stories Episode 233
In the United States, like many countries, middle-aged and older workers are increasingly a larger proportion of the workforce. The needs of these workers is…
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The Winner’s Curse | Stats + Stories Episode 232
A randomized controlled trial is viewed as the golden standard in medical research, particularly as it relates to treatments or interventions. But there may be…
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The Statistics That Go Into City Planning | Stats + Stories Episode 231
Cities are places where continuity and change co-exist. History shapes neighborhoods and the relationships between them, while economic forces can reshape a…
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Becoming a Biostatistician | Stats + Short Stories Episode 230
Conner Jackson is a Research Instructor in the Department of Biostatistics and Informatics at the Colorado School of Public Health. He serves as the chair of…
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The Age of the Supercentenarian | Stats + Stories Episode 229
When American comedian and actor Betty White died, fans lamented the fact that she had just missed making it to her 100th birthday. They felt she’d been robbed…
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Ecological and Environmental Stats for Earth Day | Stats + Stories Episode 228
Earth day was launched in 1970 in the aftermath of several environmental disasters in the publication of Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring". It was designed to…
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Academic Writing for Everyone | Stats + Short Stories Episode 227
Rosemary and John both have a passion for teaching. Their experience with classes ranges from mentored studies with a few students, to face-to-face classes…
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The Statistical Detective | Stats + Stories Episode 226
No matter how careful a researcher or statistician is there's the possibility that an error made exists in reported data. The trick as a reader is figuring out…
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Predicting the Weather with Pietro the Weather Tortoise | Stats + Stories Episode 225
Meteorologists go to school to be able to predict the weather accurately, but for some people, weather prediction is a hobby. Maybe they have a trick knee that…
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In Defense of Standardized Testing | Stats + Stories Episode 224
The utility of standardized testing is under debate in the US with opponents of their use in K-12 suggesting educators are now being forced to teach to tests…
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The Data Journalism Podcast | Stats + Stories Episode 223
Data Journalism is a hot topic in the news business. Reporters working in diverse media and diverse markets are increasingly being asked to work with data…
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Writing the Book on R | Stats + Short Stories Episode 222
Impacting statistical and data science communites is aspiration that many of us share. Outlets for such impact include work environments where we may…
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Building a Career in Data Science | Stats + Short Stories Episode 221
Impacting the statistical data science communities has an aspiration many of us share. Outlets for such impact include work environments where we may…
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The Best Friend on Friends | Stats + Stories Episode 220
Since the 1990’s people have been trying to figure out who’s the best friend. Is it Chandler because of his dry wit? Phoebe because of her unabashed…
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Statistics Can Find Anybody | Stats + Short Stories Episode 219
From Florence Nightingale to David Cox we hear at Stats and Stories love tales of the careers of statisticians who made an impact on the world. Yes, friends in…
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Statistician with a CAUSE | Stats + Stories Episode 218
Dr. Dennis Pearl is a Professor of Statistics at Pennsylvania State University and Director of the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics…
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The Stats of Skill vs. the Stories of Chance | Stats + Stories Episode 217
Gambling is often tricky topic. It got Pete Rose kicked out of baseball, and more recently, made news when Michigan State University announced a betting…
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Carnegie the Statistician | Stats + Stories Episode 216
The Gilded Age in the U.S. is perhaps best known for the great men who rose to prominence at the time. Men such as John D. Rockefeller and JP Morgan, who made…
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Monetizing the Metaverse | Stats + Short Stories Episode 215
On a recent episode of Stats+Stories, Timandra Harkness talked with us about the rise of today’s data economy. On today’s episode of Stats and Short Stories we…
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What is Nutrition Science | Stats + Stories Episode 214
An entire industry has grown up around nutrition and health. People pushing everything from shakes, to meal kits, to special diets. While some of the claims…
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The Data Economy | Stats + Stories Episode 213
Do you remember the first time you saw a prompt in social media asking about a product you were searching for on some other online platform? How about the…
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A Not So Standard Podcast | Stats + Stories Episode 212
Our lives are increasingly shaped by statistics and data. However, they remain concepts that can be difficult for broad audiences to understand. A number of…
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Collecting Human Rights Statistics | Stats + Stories Episode 211
When we talk about human rights we often focus on qualitative narratives; the tales of struggles faced by refugees, of rights denied to individuals during war…
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Covid By Numbers | Stats + Stories Episode 210
There's so much data out there about COVID-19 it can be hard to make sense of it all. Over the last year, a couple of statisticians have been working to help…
Stats + StoriesInoculating Your Mind | Stats + Stories Episode 209
The information age has been rife with more misinformation than any other time in human history. With the dissemination and spread of fakes news is at an…
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Conspiracy Dissemination Dilemma | Stats + Stories Episode 208
Social media are complicated. With some research suggesting they're important spaces for digital community building and other scholars pointing out how social…
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A Chance for Good | Stats + Stories Episode 207
There's a lot of conversation happening about the ethical uses of data and statistics how much weight should we put on numbers at all? How thoroughly should we…
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No One is Poisoning Your Kids' Candy, Trust the Numbers | Stats + Stories Episode 206
The costumes are ready and the annual opportunity to go out and harass your neighbors to get candy is once again upon us. Yes, it's time for Halloween. And…
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The Right to Be Left Alone | Stats + Stories Episode 205
With the ubiquity of technology in our lives have come concerns over privacy, security, and surveillance. These are particularly potent in relation to what's…
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Wealth Inequality Escalation | Stats + Stories Episode 204
The issue of income inequality is one Americans continually wrestle with the COVID 19 pandemic bringing to light how housing, health, and general wellbeing are…
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The Ocean Health Index | Stats + Stories Episode 203
The health of the world's oceans is a growing concern but measuring ocean health is a complicated undertaking. Some people studying the issue focus on…
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The Sports Statistic of the Year | Stats + Stories Episode 202
The COVID pandemic put many Sports on hold during 2020, but with the industry roaring back with the 2021 Summer Olympics as well as World Cup qualifier matches…
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Making Newsrooms More Data Friendly | Stats + Stories Episode 201 (from the RSS 2021 Conference)
Newsrooms all over the world are embracing data journalism – looking for unique and thoughtful ways to use data to tell stories about their communities. But is…
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#MemeMedianMode Contest Winner! | Stats + Stories Episode 200
At Stats+Stories we're lucky to have listeners who put up with John's bad jokes and our general shenanigans. In fact, you've listened to 199 discussions of the…
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Stats on the Timeline | Stats + Stories Episode 199.75 (from the RSS 2021 Conference)
Twitter can be cacophonous at times – one a given day, serious analysis of the situation in Afghanistan, news stories about climate change, and Parry Gripp’s…
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Glass Ceilings in Academia | Stats + Stories Episode 199.5
The tenure track process at American universities is a grind – one shaped by the old adage to “Publish or perish.” But if a junior faculty member manages to…