While it’s nice to think that our challenge in life is to get rid of uncertainty and be in complete control of everything, that is not going to happen. One of life’s real challenges is to deal with the uncertain and the unknown in some sort of an effective way; and that is the realm of probability. […]
Polling can be an effective mechanism to predict the outcome of a vote, but in order to obtain valid results you have to be careful about how you construct your sample audience. […]
Randomness can be confusing to the human mind, because its expression is often quite different than what we expect it might be. […]
By Michael Starbird, PhD, The University of Texas at Austin Stretching from the days of ancient Greece, calculus was developed and refined throughout the centuries, up […]
The founder of modern genetics, Gregor Mendel, may have falsified data in his famous pea experiment in order to better correspond with his expectations. […]
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