Even a rudimentary look at probability can give new insights about how to interpret data. Simple thought experiments an can give new insight into the different ways misunderstanding of statistics can ...

In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...

The first study of why people struggle to solve statistical problems reveals a preference for complicated rather than simpler, more intuitive solutions -- which often leads to failure in solving the ...

The fields of psychology and cognitive neuroscience have had some rough sledding in recent years. The bumps have come from high-profile fraudsters, concerns about findings that can't be replicated, ...

In recent months, we’ve all been bombarded with numbers. It’s vital that we learn how to interpret them In the institute where I used to work a few years ago, a rare non-infectious illness hit five ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician) The Statistician joined the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society as its Series D from the journal of the Institute of ...

Being inundated with massive amounts of information can feel overwhelming, but knowledge of statistics allows people to distinguish essential facts from trivial details in order to make logical and ...