Tom Chivers

15/11/2020 29 min
Tom Chivers

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Science writer Tom Chivers discusses with Ivan six things which he thinks should be better known.
Tom Chivers is science editor at UnHerd.com. His second book, How To Read Numbers: A Guide to Statistics in the News (and Knowing When to Trust Them), will be published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson in March 2021. He is a two-time winner of the Royal Statistical Society's Statistical Excellence in Journalism award, and was once told by Terry Pratchett that he was "far too nice to be a journalist".


Goodhart’s Law https://unherd.com/2020/04/we-cant-put-too-much-faith-in-covid-19-statistics/


Kill Team https://www.goonhammer.com/getting-started-kill-team/ and https://unherd.com/2020/03/self-isolation-is-feeding-my-warhammer-addiction/


Selection bias https://unherd.com/2019/09/statistically-you-shouldnt-believe-the-news/


Red kite https://unherd.com/2019/11/let-loose-the-lynxes/


Coordination games https://unherd.com/2020/03/would-you-take-a-coronavirus-risk/


Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series https://www.npr.org/2016/06/14/481391755/temeraire-and-laurence-at-peace-at-last-in-league-of-dragons



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