Archive 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
Archive 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
Archive 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
Archive 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