Tag: Statistics
For over a century, baseball’s scouts have been the backbone of...
H. James Gilmore, Flagler College and Tracy Halcomb, Flagler College
Former MLB executive Pat Gillick won three World Series...
Declines in math readiness underscore the urgency of math awareness
Manil Suri, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
When President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the first National Math Awareness Week in...
UN slavery estimate raises question: Are 50 million people really enslaved today?
Monti Datta, University of Richmond
According to the United Nations, about 50 million people are enslaved worldwide.
Old age isn’t a modern phenomenon – many people lived long...
Sharon DeWitte, University of South Carolina
Every year I ask the college students in the course I teach about...
Women are better at statistics than they think
Jonathan B. Santo, University of Nebraska Omaha and Kelly Rhea MacArthur, University of Nebraska Omaha
The Research Brief is...
Want to master Wordle? Here’s the best strategy for your first...
Derek Horstmeyer, George Mason University
As Wordle has skyrocketed in popularity, multiple media outlets have published articles that explore...
How many lives have coronavirus vaccines saved? We used state data...
Sumedha Gupta, IUPUI
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More than 200 million U.S. residents have gotten at least...
Up to 204,691 extra deaths in the US so far in...
Ronald D. Fricker Jr., Virginia Tech
The Conversation, CC BY-NDThe number of deaths in the United States through July 2020 is 8% to 12% higher...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
