Soft Significance

"The Kids Are Too Soft"

Anne Helen Petersen | Culture Study | 23rd October 2024 | U

Are today's wannabe journalists from a coddled generation? Or are they just young people fighting a broken system? "The best indication of the health of an industry like journalism isn’t who excels there, because the answer is obvious: work robots who come from some sort of family money. To understand just how broken media is, look at who leaves the field — or who dares not pursue it" (3,000 words)

Statistical Significance And Why It Matters

Emily Oster | ParentData | 29th January 2024 | U

How to read studies more effectively. The phrase "statistically significant" is sometimes used in lay parlance as a synonym for "true", which is not, in fact, a true definition. Use this one instead: "When we say an effect is 'statistically significant at the 5 per cent level', what this means is that there is less than a 5 per cent chance that we’d see an effect of this size if the true effect were zero" (2,400 words)