It's said that statistics don't lie, but they often don't tell the whole truth, either. A Cornell statistics expert has come up with a method he believes can boost statistical power and significantly ...

Governments that value effective policymaking should be alert to the perils of falling survey-response rates, inadequate ...

Education Week journalists have consistently heard anecdotes about problems with student behavior and engagement, so for the 2026 The State of Teaching survey, we crafted a few questions about how ...

Objective probability estimates the odds of an event occurring through data analysis. It uses concrete measures instead of guesses to provide a reliable forecast.

Some researchers are sounding the alarm over the official data sets that track crucial aspects of life in the United States, ...

Startups often take more risks, look to venture capitalists for funding, and plan to grow their business quickly. As a result, failure rates among startups are higher than those of small businesses.

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

Another down day for the major market indexes, but not before the S&P 500 set a new intraday record. Earnings season got off to a good start with better-than-expected numbers from Delta and PepsiCo, ...

President Donald Trump claimed without evidence that the massive revisions to the latest jobs report constituted a “scam,” accusing one of the top overseers of government statistics of cooking the ...

For the first time, the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics has been fired by the President of the United States for political reasons, launching the $30 trillion economy into uncharted and ...

Sven, a sales leader, received a call from a major customer who was furious. Their order arrived late, the product was damaged, and to top it off, their invoice didn’t reflect the volume discount ...

The Atlanta Braves experienced a big offensive night against the Los Angeles Angels on Wednesday. First baseman Matt Olson slammed the team's second grand slam of the season. The return of outfielder ...