In the late 1960s, Juanita Brooks was robbed and assaulted in Los Angeles by a blond-haired white woman wearing dark clothing. An eyewitness to the crime corroborated the description, adding that the ...

For founders, this logical fallacy might be relevant in a variety of scenarios, including hiring, understanding your customer ...

As I’ve mentioned in my column posts, Tesla and Elon Musk’s vision for the realization of semi-autonomous and fully autonomous cars is commendable and has undoubtedly helped spur progress on advancing ...

One person you wouldn't expect to hear tout a statistical fallacy is Warren Buffett, but the legendary investor appeared to do just that at the recent Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, a reminder of ...

An analysis of the ESPN database of NFL players for the 2016-2017 season by position for place kickers and punters reveals the following: 1. Of the 35 place kickers on 2016-2017 NFL rosters, 34 are ...

The Rev. Thomas Bayes was, as the honorific the Rev. suggests, a clergyman. Too bad he wasn’t a lawyer. Maybe if he had been, lawyers today wouldn’t be so reluctant to enlist his mathematical insights ...

You've designed a great short-range radio system; each individual element seems pretty much to meet the specification you needed for it. So you and your team work long hours to get a prototype ready.

Data can drive better marketing strategies and help make content more authoritative. However, when data is interpreted incorrectly, it can lead marketers astray. An infographic (below) from Geckoboard ...

This has always bothered me and it came up again in Bad Monkey's trading/gambling thread.<BR><BR>The question is simple--if you believe that after 5 "heads" tosses of a fair coin the 6th toss is more ...

“It is impossible to approach the gambling table without becoming infected with superstition,” writes Alexei Ivanovich, the Russian tutor in Dostoyevsky’s powerful novella The Gambler. Even Alexei’s ...