Anyone familiar with basic statistics is familiar with the concept of a bell curve. A bell curve is a visual representation of normal data distribution, in which the median represents the highest ...

The mere fact that a standardized performance evaluation consistently shows a difference between groups does not mean that the evaluation process is flawed. In fact, consistency and replicability, ...

I’m sorry that if talking about hockey analytics bores you so much that you’ve immediately unbookmarked this site and thrown your laptop into the trash so you never need to risk seeing someone mention ...

In April, I recorded an interview of almost two and a half hours with Sam Harris for his Waking Up podcast which, I learned only after I had done it, regularly attracts a few million listeners. We ...

Imagine you're at a fair, and you see a booth with a giant dartboard. The booth owner challenges you to hit the bullseye. You take your shot, and the dart lands somewhere on the board. Now imagine ...

Imagine that the labels “morally courageous” and “intellectually honest” didn’t refer to inner personal qualities but instead were prizes in a language game. The goal of the game is to be awarded the ...

A bell curve is a graph used to visualize the distribution of a set of chosen values across a specified group that tend to have central, normal values that peak, with low and high extremes tapering ...