The headline statistics we currently employ to understand America’s economy are profoundly misleading and, unfortunately, ...

If there's one thing that's certain in a digital world, it's that we are surrounded by ever-increasing amounts of data. From ...

Mark Twain attributed to Benjamin Disraeli the famous remark: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ In every industry, from education to healthcare to travel, the ...

One thing that people often misunderstand about statistics is that every statistic means something only in comparison to something else. A different comparison point changes how you perceive the exact ...

Understanding statistics is a crucial skill in today's data-heavy world. A minor in statistics can complement almost any major, from anthropology to sports management. In the statistics minor, you'll ...

People talk about lying with statistics all the time. People talk about lies, damn lies, and statistics. All this talk makes it so that many people distrust statistics simply out of the gate. As ...

The FINANCIAL — Recently I was asked by a dear friend to explain how a social scientist can pretend to know the opinions of an entire country by only polling a thousand people. The FINANCIAL — ...

There's a piece up over at Bloomberg telling us of the awful inequality in the United States, using as their example the gaps in income in Miami, one of the more unequal cities in the country. And it ...

What does it look like when research evolves out of classroom experience? There’s a bit of a philosophical disagreement in the education research community: those who say action research lacks rigor ...

Many years ago I took statistics in high school with Mr. Malis. Try as he might, Mr. Malis could never get through to me that statistics would be a useful thing to know in adulthood. As a future ...