I've recently begun to publish small excerpts and arguments from my forthcoming work, The Myth of Sex Addiction. As I've done so, I've heard from sex addiction proponents who argue that I must accept ...

Under the vast undulating surface of the ocean, "constellations" of towering subsea mountains dot the Earth – and they are teeming with sharks. Beneath the waves, ocean currents roar like the wind ...

Building a startup means constantly navigating trade-offs: limited capital, aggressive timelines, and overwhelming uncertainty. Most founders operate on gut instinct. They often don’t know whether ...

Should you believe the findings of scientific studies? Amid current concerns about the public's trust in science, old arguments are resurfacing that can sow confusion. As a statistician involved in ...

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Homeland Security Director Kristi Noem, under sharp questioning from Democratic senators during a Tuesday hearing, incorrectly described habeas corpus as a presidential authority to deport individuals ...

In the early 1920s, a trio of scientists sat down for a break at Rothamsted agricultural research station in Hertfordshire, UK. One of them, a statistician by the name of Ronald Fisher, poured a cup ...

We will be exploring this question through the use of the Outages dataset provided by Purdue University in which a raw preview is provided below. CLIMATE.REGION: U.S. Climate regions as specified by ...

Alpha, also known as the significance level or Type I error rate, is a fundamental concept in statistics used to determine the strength of evidence against a null ...