The first study of why people struggle to solve statistical problems reveals a preference for complicated rather than simpler, more intuitive solutions -- which often leads to failure in solving the ...

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This paper is concerned with inequalities connecting probabilities of hypotheses using Bayes' theorem (a posteriori probabilities), a priori probabilities, and Kullback-Leibler information-statistics ...

Statistics is the science of analyzing data; the use of statistics is ubiquitous in science, engineering, medicine and epidemiology, marketing, and many other application areas. Probability theory ...

Everyone who spends time with children knows how incredibly much they learn. But how can babies and young children possibly learn so much so quickly? In a recent article in Science, I describe a ...