In their article “Make Math a Gateway, Not a Gatekeeper” (The Chronicle, April 23), Anthony S. Bryk and Uri Treisman describe a problem and how the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching ...

Unfavorable methods of teaching statistics in schools and universities may be to blame for people ignoring simple solutions to statistical problems, making them hard to solve. This can have serious ...

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician) The Statistician joined the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society as its Series D from the journal of the Institute of ...

Although population association studies are not new, there remain many areas of disagreement over appropriate statistical analyses. This article provides an overview of statistical methods, including ...

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 ...