Next week, COVID-19 vaccinations are set to begin in the UK after the BioNTech vaccine was approved there. EU approval is also not far off. There is great euphoria, and at the same time, it is clear: not everyone can be vaccinated at once. Very likely, not everyone wants to be vaccinated either. Acceptance and Voluntariness Require Credibility and Trust On November 9, a joint working group consisting of members from the Standing Committee on Vaccination, the German Ethics Cou

Our Unstatistic of the Month for November addressed the question of how to correctly interpret statements about vaccine effectiveness. That contribution continues to make big waves to this day. Immediately after its publication, BR Faktenfuchs very differentiatedly addressed the topic of absolute and relative risk reduction, clarifying why the statement that the active ingredient protects 95% of vaccinated individuals from getting sick or even infected is not correct. However

‘Coronavirus case numbers are meaningless. Unless you know something about testing. And even then, it gets complicated.’ So wrote Nate Silver, statistician and founder of FiveThirtyEight, almost exactly a year ago. But do we know enough about testing? Coronavirus Case Counts Are Meaningless* *Unless you know something about testing. And even then, it gets complicated. In October, we explained in the Unstatistic of the Month why the 7-day incidence, which shows the developmen

The Unstatistik of the Month for July is a press release from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) titled "Corona fuels another pandemic" and its reception in the media. The "other pandemic" refers to the increase in weight among adult Germans. "Germans have gained just over five kilograms in the past year," writes ZEIT online, expressing concern: "How do we get that weight down again?" In the following interview with four personal trainers, two of them confirm their impr

Unstatistik des Monats has been around for ten years now. Our first book became a Spiegel bestseller and the second will be published this year. But there's still no reason to sit back and say: We've made it - Germany thinks statistically. On the contrary. We still have a long way to go. "Why Being Fat Doesn't Make You Stupid and GMOs Don't Kill" by Thomas Bauer, Gerd Gigerenzer, Walter Krämer - Campus Verlag With a view to dealing with numbers and statistics in the Corona cr