Leah Libresco

Leah Libresco

Leah Libresco is a statistician in Washington DC and a religion writer at Patheos. Her first book, Arriving at Amen, comes out in May 2015.

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Articles


A New Danger to Expecting Mothers: Statistical Illiteracy

January 18, 2015

The very way we talk about the accuracy of a medical test is flawed. Yet correcting these biases and misunderstandings isn’t just a matter of urging a patient not to take a test too seriously; sometimes the right answer is not to do a kitchen sink screening test at all.


Learning to Linger in Leisure Spaces

January 13, 2015

Finding communal spaces apart from home or the office may be difficult, but restoring “Third Places” may not be a matter of finding so much the energy to start as opportunities to stay.


If Only Angels Would Prevail: The Moral Tragedy of Sweeney Todd

March 3, 2014

“Sweeney Todd isn’t a revolutionary; he doesn’t set out to upend the entire malevolent society in which he lives. He commits himself simply to resolving the worst abuse within his scope.”