Regina L. Nuzzo PhD

Regina Nuzzo, PhD, received her bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of South Florida, a PhD in statistics from Stanford University, and graduate science writing training at the University of California–Santa Cruz. She is a professor teaching statistics at Gallaudet University. Dr. Nuzzo’s writing on science, data, and statistics has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, and Scientific American, among others. Her feature article on p values in Nature earned the American Statistical Association’s 2014 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award, and she facilitated the working group that produced the 2016 American Statistical Association’s Statement on p Values. She speaks to a variety of audiences about abuses of statistics, human bias in data analysis, “quantitative communication,” and the importance of properly and creatively framing statistical ideas.