Mathematics professor Rebecca Goldin has called for statisticians to ‘have some empathy' for journalists who write about statistics, acknowledging the many challenges they face in reporting on the subject.
Journalists are trained in language, she said, but statistical language often 'obscures rather than clarifies’, especially when it assigns unique meanings to words in common usage, such as ‘significance’ or ‘error’.
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