Understanding a political poll requires method: sampling, margin of error, questions, and bias matter more than the bold ...

Mason Youngblood, a psychologist at City University of New York, has found a way to study cultural conformity bias in groups of people by studying music sampling used on commercially sold songs. In ...

Sampling is a staple of the music industry, giving artists the chance to repurpose other works. Generally, the samples we think of are snippets of songs, like Kanye’s “Gold Digger,” which makes use of ...