Online Dating and the Statistical Dark Arts

One of the darkest statistical arts lies in choosing the model to use when analyzing your experimental data. A statistical model both represents your understanding of the experiment and enables you to test the strength of evidence supporting your conclusions. You can...

The Graph That Launched a Thousand News Stories

Statistics is the science of learning from data, and of measuring, controlling, and communicating uncertainty Thoughtful analysis and honest, effective communication of data are hallmarks of good statistical practice. At the intersection of data communication and...

Informed Consent: When Science is a Morality Play

From left: Tina Benko, Myra Lucretia Taylor, and Jesse J. Perez in the Primary Stages and Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation production of Informed Consent by Deborah Zoe Laufer, directed by Liesl Tommy, at Primary Stages at The Duke on 42nd Street....

Illuminating Complexity: The Art of Science Communication

Ihave always been enamored by the drawings of the neuroatonomist Santiago Ramon y Cajal, one of the fathers of modern neuroscience. His hand drawn renditions of neurons, based on histological examinations of brain slices, are simple, black ink on now golden with age...