Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change, which found ...

The probability of an occurrence is increased over time if there are a limited number of occurrences (dependent probability). Mental addition strategies to estimate a probable total. Strategic ...

Source: Thunder Bay, Canada. Used with permission of Dan Hunt, MD. Coincidences attract our attention because they seem weird, odd, or unlikely. Their improbability stimulates wonder—“what are the ...

In school, we are trained to think that math problems always have one correct answer. But this is not necessarily true for problems dealing with probability, if the method used to reach the described ...