Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ...

Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...

Avery Hurt is a freelance science journalist who frequently writes for Discover Magazine, covering scientific studies on topics like neuroscience, insects, and microbes. View Full Profile. Back in the ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

In school, we are trained to think that math problems always have one correct answer. But this is not necessarily true for problems dealing with probability, if the method used to reach the described ...

Statistical Science, Vol. 8, No. 1, Report from the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Research Council on Probability and Algorithms (Feb., 1993), pp. 48-56 (9 pages) ...

Complex as they may seem, traditional computers deal in a simple art. They rely on tiny switches that turn on and off, producing the streams of ones and zeros that software eventually translates into ...

What does disaster management and pokies reform have in common? They both deal with a fundamental problem of human psychology - the failure to understand probabilities. This was pointed out to me ...

Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...

The solution to this month’s puzzle examines the use of abstract probabilities as an antidote to real-world ignorance. Read Later The second Insights puzzle, “The Slippery Eel of Probability,” was ...