With the "Unstatistic of the Month," we—along with the newsletter's author, Berlin psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer, Dortmund statistician Walter Krämer, and RWI Vice President Thomas K. Bauer—question both the recently published figures and their interpretations every month. All "Unstatistics" can be found on the internet at www.unstatistik.de and under the Twitter account @unstatistik. Today's newsletter builds on the Unstatistic from December 2020. Some issues of the Unstatis

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

This post originally appeared on the blog of the Hochschulforum Digitalisierung. Authors: Dr. Henning Koch, Katharina Schüller, Florian Rampelt In early February 2021, the Stifterverband, together with numerous partners, published a Data Literacy Charter, which our foundress and CEO, Dr. Katharina Schüller, had the honor of co-initiating as one of the three authors. The German Statistical Society is also among the first signatories. By signing the Data Literacy Charter, the s

As a Munich-based consultancy for data science and data strategies, STAT-UP develops a curriculum and didactic concept for knowledge transfer through an interactive learning application. On February 22, 2021, Chancellor Angela Merkel introduced the Digital Education Initiative. At the live broadcasted kickoff event with prominent guests, Katharina Schüller, founder and CEO of the Munich-based consulting firm STAT-UP, discussed with the Chancellor and the Federal Minister of E

‘Only with scientific evaluations that are independent and based on a very broad foundation can the necessary decision-making aids be made available to policymakers in the shortest possible time,’ said DAGStat Chairman Prof Dr Friede in connection with a current recommendation for a national strategy for the collection and processing of data. ‘Full transparency in data collection, full transparency in the models used and the analysis of the data sets as well as full transpare

‘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

Data and information are essential components of an open society. In order for everyone to participate, it is necessary to promote data literacy at all levels of society. The expansion of data literacy not only creates more security and transparency in handling data but also enables the potential of data to be recognized and utilized more effectively. The German government has also anchored the promotion of data literacy as a central field of action in its data strategy. A wh

STAT-UP CEO Katharina Schüller is in the final selection for the Digital Female Leader Awards 2021. Munich, September 2, 2021 - The Digital Female Leader Award #DFLA aims to make the career paths of women in the digital economy visible and tell their stories. In the award categories Career, Digital Leadership, Digital Transformation, Diversity, Entrepreneurship, FinTech / Money, Global Hero, Health, Innovation, IT-Tech, Legal, Lifestyle, Mobility, New Work, Purpose Communicat

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

At the beginning of the year, I spoke to a good friend about getting married. We both wondered whether a "special" wedding day like 22 February 2022 would help us to have a long (and happy) marriage. For various reasons (not least the fact that all the registry offices in Munich were already fully booked), conducting our own experiment was out of the question. Fortunately, as a statistician, you have other ways of approaching such questions... Superstition has always played a

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