2012 WAS A good year for numbers in American presidential politics, but it also highlighted a collective squeamishness about statistics. By mid-October, New York Times number-cruncher Nate Silver ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly portrayed undocumented immigrants as dangerous, violent criminals who must be kept out of the US at all costs, but crime data tells a different story. Multiple ...

Let X1, ·, Xn be n independent random vectors, Xν = (X(1) ν, ⋯, X(r) ν), and Φ(x1, ⋯, xm) a function of m(≤ n) vectors $x_\nu = (x^{(1)}_\nu, \cdots, x^{(r ...

At the Econoclass.com website, there’s a great list of ten examples that illustrate the important economic concept of the Law of Unintended Consequences, here’s a summary: 1. “Three strikes” laws may ...