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
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…
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
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
