There is overwhelming evidence of racial bias in the criminal justice system, in everything from policing to sentencing. Nonetheless, the ongoing protests against racism and police brutality have ...

This article is from Proof Positive, our friendly newsletter that explores the joys and peculiarities of math. Sign up today for a weekly math essay and puzzle in your email inbox. Statistics can ...

(via Minute Physics) This video is about Simpson's paradox, a statistical paradox and ecological fallacy where seemingly contradictory results are implied by a single set of data depending on how it's ...

The greatest tennis player of the past 25 years is the worst tennis player of the past 25 years in one statistical category. As detailed in The Atlantic, Ryan Rodenberg and his research partners ...

IT seems worth while to record the following pretty statistical paradox as a good example of the pitfalls into which persons are apt to fall, who attempt short cuts in the solution of problems of ...