Public opinion polls are ubiquitous in rich countries, especially during elections. Such polls estimate general support levels for political candidates based on the strength of their support within a small sample of that population. The classical ideal for building...
On October 3, 2015 the US bombed a hospital run by the NGO Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), killing 22 and injuring dozens. This is an especially bad incident for the US, possibly constituting a war crime depending on the exact circumstances. From the beginning US...
I teach more than one hundred students every year but will bet my house that a student taller than 7’6’’ will never walk into my classroom. This is because human heights conform well to a “normal” distribution, or “bell curve,” rendering large deviations from average...
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