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John Wihbey
March 11, 2015
The notion that journalists are math phobic and prone to error when working with numbers is an age-old cliché, embodied in the quip that, for many in the media, the plural of anecdote is data.
These notions remain firmly in place despite significant pushes by journalism schools and media organizations. For example, the media organization Investigative Reporters & Editors (IRE) has long sought to improve data literacy skills among journalists. While there has been a significant rise in data journalism — as exemplified by news outlets such as Quartz, Vox and FiveThirtyEight, as well as blogs and news verticals like “Wonkblog” and “The Upshot,” which make statistics and empirical thinking part of their core product — many journalists continue to hesitate when stories require that they tackle complicated numbers.