Statistics influence nearly everything. That is, the information and context derived from statistical analysis help to shape important decisions that have local, national, and global impacts. For ...

Statistics and science have been publicly slammed by some. The issues of climate change and COVID-19, in particular, have stirred accusations of bias, conspiracies, and even hoaxes (Philipp-Muller et ...

There are many examples of statistics and science disproving our strongly held beliefs, including the once-very-common belief that the earth was at the center of the universe. In general, we can get ...

The abuse of business statistics has been rampant for a long time, particularly as it applies to the confusion between correlation and causation. But the misapplication of statistics shows up in other ...

2012 WAS A good year for numbers in American presidential politics, but it also highlighted a collective squeamishness about statistics. By mid-October, New York Times number-cruncher Nate Silver ...