Understanding statistics is a crucial skill in today's data-heavy world. A minor in statistics can complement almost any major, from anthropology to sports management. In the statistics minor, you'll ...

Mark Twain attributed to Benjamin Disraeli the famous remark: ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.’ In every industry, from education to healthcare to travel, the ...

One thing that people often misunderstand about statistics is that every statistic means something only in comparison to something else. A different comparison point changes how you perceive the exact ...

We live in a world overrun with data; the age of computers and information. Hence we are endlessly confronted by statistics. It is the season of presidential elections, in case you have not noticed.

There’s been a lot of rhetoric in recent years in political ranks about violent crime — homicides, assaults, shootings, stabbings, etc. Depending on your sources of news, you might have the impression ...

Vast amounts of data are generated every day. Statistics transforms data into meaningful information. People who practice the science of learning from data are called statisticians. Statisticians ...

The FINANCIAL — Recently I was asked by a dear friend to explain how a social scientist can pretend to know the opinions of an entire country by only polling a thousand people. The FINANCIAL — ...

What does it look like when research evolves out of classroom experience? There’s a bit of a philosophical disagreement in the education research community: those who say action research lacks rigor ...

People talk about lying with statistics all the time. People talk about lies, damn lies, and statistics. All this talk makes it so that many people distrust statistics simply out of the gate. As ...

Many years ago I took statistics in high school with Mr. Malis. Try as he might, Mr. Malis could never get through to me that statistics would be a useful thing to know in adulthood. As a future ...