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 ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society), Vol. 151, No. 1 (1988), pp. 201-210 (10 pages) The environmental sciences provide a continuing source of challenging ...

Physicists have spent centuries grappling with an inconvenient truth about nature: Faced with three stars on a collision course, astronomers could measure their locations and velocities in nanometers ...

In 1999, an English solicitor named Sally Clark went on trial for the murder of her two infant sons. She claimed both succumbed to sudden infant death syndrome. An expert witness for the prosecution, ...

Pigeons might do better than humans at game shows, at least on "Let's Make A Deal." These new findings — involving the pigeons superior ability to solve a perplexing statistical problem — might in ...

A new study uses an analytical technique called 'network science' to determine factors contributing to statistics anxiety among psychology majors. Have you ever been stressed out by the idea of doing ...

As I’ve discussed previously, there are a number of theoretical and practical issues that plague psychological research in terms of statistical testing. On the theoretical end of things, if you ...