Looking for examples of spurious correlations to illustrate for your students the dangers of confusing correlation and causation? Tyler Vi...
A recent Pew Research Center analysis of data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances shows that the Great Recession has wi...
Vi Hart and Nicky Case have created an interactive based on Nobel-Prize winning game theorist Thomas Schelling’s 1971 model of racial segreg...
A number of polls have shown that an increasing share of the American public views torture as justifiable. According to the Pew Research Ce...
Census Explorer, the Census Bureau's interactive mapping tool, has released “Young Adults: Then and Now.” The tool uses data from the...
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that views of the grand jury decision in the Ferguson, MO, case are strongly divided along racia...
The belief that relational (indirect) aggression is a predominantly female behavior has been popularized by some research studies and the me...
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