Simpson's Paradox is a common situation arising in statistics that is counter-intuitive and causes many people to misinterpret data. Suppose we are trying to measure the effectiveness of a teacher ...

The one source of truth is mathematics. Every statement is a pure logical deduction from foundational axioms, resulting in absolute certainty. Since Andrew Wiles proved Fermat’s Last Theorem, you’d be ...

Marijn Heule turns mathematical statements into something like Sudoku puzzles, then has computers go to work on them. His ...