Can you predict whether a passenger would have survived the sinking of the Titanic based on factors like gender and income? How do you know if a mushroom is poisonous or safe to eat? What separates a ...

Learning abstract concepts like probability can often be challenging without practical examples. For many, it becomes easier to grasp when these ideas are connected to real-life experiences or ...

The laws of probability seems simple at first thought, but scratch the surface and their inner truth can be rather more counterintuitive. This video describes one of those situations—and the answer ...

Most humans don’t have a natural facility with probability. It’s not intuitive, like the ability to walk or talk. Learning the mechanics of chance takes time, but is less essential than, say, reading, ...

Want to help your 11th-grader master math? Here are some of the skills your student will be learning in the classroom. For high school students, math skills and understandings are organized not by ...

If the risk of an event goes up or down, we assume that it will keep changing in that direction. Consider a weather forecast: If the probability of rain goes from 20% to 30%, many people then think it ...

The times they are a changin’ … and so are the stats. The old process of judging baseball players and teams relied on simple counting stats (runs batted in, hits, wins) and basic rate stats (batting ...