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How times have changed for teenagers: Baby names and degrees

In our December 2018 print edition, Jeff Ralph, the Royal Statistical Society's William Guy schools'…

Jeff RalphNovember 1, 2018

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The failure of the election polls and the future of survey research

Before joining Significance, I spent more than a decade reporting on the market research and…

Brian TarranNovember 24, 2015

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Bourbaki’s theorem: a hoax math lecture

A couple years ago I wrote about an experiment where researchers had hired an actor…

Mikhail SimkinOctober 1, 2013

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PhDs couldn’t tell an actor from a renowned scientist

Forty years ago, a singularly interesting lecture was held at the University of Southern California…

Mikhail SimkinJuly 4, 2011