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LATEST ISSUE
November 2025 volume 22 issue 6
NOTEBOOK
News
Rotten Tomatoes, Guy Nason, special issue callout, Significance Lecture and more
Puzzle
Play or pass
Plus the solution to “Luck be a lady”
Editorial
Pucker up and simmer down
PERSPECTIVES
The espresso point
Turning student absences into coffee breaks
Humanities vs STEM
A convert to statistics shares her insights
Bad stats
This issue: ultra-processed foods
Book review
Uncharted Territory by Chris Dalla Riva, reviewed by Jamie G. Joseph
Letters
Over to you…
Crossword
One More Time, by Sam Buttrey. Plus the solution to last issue’s crossword
Questions answered
Meet 2026 ASA President, Jeri Mulrow
STATSCOMM
Language barriers
Are statisticians and data scientists speaking the same language?
Pitching your work
Learning from novelists
FEATURES
Art world ‘sleepers’
Estimating the missing Modiglianis
Control charts
In praise of Walter Shewhart
Eye health
Understanding anomalies in the data
Agricultural data
Do we have what we need to cut emissions?
Climate change attribution
An explainer
The ‘kiss effect’
TV romances and their effect on ratings
How to run a lottery
Comparing the best methods
Data governance at the UN
An overview of recent developments
Early Scottish statisticians
Our 2025 writing competition winner
PROFILES
Big data
PROFILES
An interview with DuckDB’s Hannes Muhleisen








