As an undergraduate, I once went to a talk in psychology that was also attended by a prominent professor of psychology. The speaker flashed up a slide with some math, and almost immediately, while I ...

There are lots of answers to this question, but I'll explore a few over the next week. Think of this as the back-to-school portion of the blog. One factor that leads girls to drop math is that boys ...

University of Calgary provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Calgary provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Statistically speaking, five to eight ...

Had your fill of top 10s for 2023 and predictions for 2024? Let’s instead start with an operational level-set. This way, you and your teams will have agency and impact on those matters you can control ...

Remember when your sixth-grade math teacher told you to pay more attention in class because you’d need to know this information in adulthood? Here I am, [redacted] years later, and I have no idea what ...

In a recent issue of Card Player (Vol. 19/No. 10), I was interested to see Tom McEvoy write – under the title, "Mike Caro is Right!" – that in poker, math is meaningless and psychology is paramount.