In the last year, statistics have been unusually important in the news. How accurate is the COVID-19 test you or others are using? How do researchers know the effectiveness of new therapeutics for COVID-19 patients? How can ...
Mathematics
Jan 7, 2021
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How confident should you be in election polls? Not nearly as confident as the pollsters claim, according to a new Berkeley Haas study.
Political science
Oct 27, 2020
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"Handy bit of research finds sexuality can be determined by the lengths of people's fingers" was one recent headline based on a peer-reviewed study by well-respected researchers at the University of Essex published in the ...
Mathematics
Nov 1, 2018
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Flooding in urban areas cost Americans more than $106 billion between 1960 and 2016, damaging property, disrupting businesses and claiming lives in the process. Determining which areas are most likely to flood amid ever-changing ...
Earth Sciences
Jun 30, 2022
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Many of us are aware of the claim that humans can maintain no more than 150 friendships. That figure is called "Dunbar's number" after the evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar, who first introduced the idea three decades ...
Evolution
Jun 23, 2021
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For decades, climate change researchers and activists have used dramatic forecasts to attempt to influence public perception of the problem and as a call to action on climate change. These forecasts have frequently been for ...
Environment
Feb 19, 2021
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In 1943, two scientists named Max Delbrück and Salvador Luria conducted an experiment to show that bacteria can mutate randomly, independent of external stimulus, such as an antibiotic that threatens a bacterial cells' survival. ...
Cell & Microbiology
Jun 15, 2021
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