Spice Up Your Stories with Statistics (Session)

You don’t need to be a math wiz to know that adding statistics can make or break a story. What are the best ways to report data? How can you when statistics are trust-worthy? In this session, we’ll look at some good and bad examples of statistics in recent reporting.

This is a recording of a session originally presented at ASJA’s 2022 Fall Conference.

Laura Laing has used her math degree as a journalist for more than 20 years. She’s the author of three books about math: Math for Grownups, Your Daily Math, and Math for Writers. She is past president of ASJA.