Statistics and science have been publicly slammed by some. The issues of climate change and COVID-19, in particular, have stirred accusations of bias, conspiracies, and even hoaxes (Philipp-Muller et ...

There are many examples of statistics and science disproving our strongly held beliefs, including the once-very-common belief that the earth was at the center of the universe. In general, we can get ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Statistical analyses are based on a mixture of mathematical theorems and judgments based on subject matter knowledge, intuition, and the goals ...

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 ...

The abuse of business statistics has been rampant for a long time, particularly as it applies to the confusion between correlation and causation. But the misapplication of statistics shows up in other ...