Statistics education and reasoning constitute a fundamental area of inquiry in contemporary educational research. Scholars are increasingly exploring methods to enhance students’ abilities to ...

Expert testimony, based on statistical data and inference, has become a routine part of legal proceedings. This article describes the role of statistics as evidence in a variety of cases and how the ...

The Rev. Thomas Bayes was, as the honorific the Rev. suggests, a clergyman. Too bad he wasn’t a lawyer. Maybe if he had been, lawyers today wouldn’t be so reluctant to enlist his mathematical insights ...

Reasoning about probabilities is something humans can’t always manage especially well, but it’s clearly a skill we’re capable of. In the wider world of animals, however, there are very few species we ...

Humans make decisions using statistical information every day. Imagine you’re selecting a packet of jellybeans. If you prefer red jellybeans, you will probably try to find a packet that shows the most ...