Sign up for The Media Today, CJR’s daily newsletter. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global ...

Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...

In school, we are trained to think that math problems always have one correct answer. But this is not necessarily true for problems dealing with probability, if the method used to reach the described ...

Statistical Science, Vol. 8, No. 1, Report from the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics of the National Research Council on Probability and Algorithms (Feb., 1993), pp. 48-56 (9 pages) ...

The problem Litt posted was: 'Suppose you have a urn containing 100 balls, n of which are red and 100-n are green, where n is uniformly distributed between 0 and 100. You randomly draw a ball from the ...

Complex as they may seem, traditional computers deal in a simple art. They rely on tiny switches that turn on and off, producing the streams of ones and zeros that software eventually translates into ...

Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Publisher Information The purpose of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) is to foster the development and dissemination of the theory and ...

The solution to this month’s puzzle examines the use of abstract probabilities as an antidote to real-world ignorance. Read Later The second Insights puzzle, “The Slippery Eel of Probability,” was ...