Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. If Ed Kilgore can steal an old post of mine about the whole “statistical tie” fallacy ...

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.

Texas has asked the Supreme Court to reverse the election results, but the case’s legal argument is flawed and its statistical assertion that Joe Biden had a minuscule chance to win is “comical,” ...

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 ...

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 ...