Data desk lead · PhD, Statistics
Nadia Krishnan leads the DataBackedNews data desk. She holds a PhD in statistics and spent six years building measurement systems before turning to journalism. She writes about reading evidence honestly — significance, sampling, uncertainty — and reviews the newsroom's most data-heavy reporting.
A six-engine study held meaning constant and changed only document structure — headings, chunking, tables. Citation rate rose 17.3%, with heading hierarchy alone responsible for nearly half the gain.
A p-value is not the probability your result is true, and 'not significant' is not 'no effect.' A plain-language guide to what a p-value actually means, the traps, and how to check significance yourself.