From 2009 to 2014 John was the Strategic Advisor to the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) on quantitative methods training overseeing the genesis and launch of the Q-Step programme. From 2015 to 2020 he was Strategic Advisor to the British Academy on Quantitative skills and a member of the British Academy's High Level Strategy group on Quantitative Skills. John is a Chartered Statistician and was Vice President (Professional Affairs) of the Royal Statistical Society 2019-20. He has held research grants from the European Commission, UK ESRC, British Academy, Leverhulme trust and British, Spanish and Catalan government departments.

Section 1: What is statistical significance and inference?
Section 2: Why do I have to draw a random sample?
Section 3: What is a normal distribution?
Section 4: What is a standard error?
Section 5: How do I calculate confidence intervals with standard errors?
Section 6: What is a p-value?
Section 7: What does a significant p-value actually mean?