Emma Teni extracts venom from Sydney funnel-web spiders at the Australian Reptile Park, crucial for the national antivenom ...

While the quickest recorded death from a Sydney funnel-web spider was a toddler at 13 minutes, the average is closer to 76 minutes - and first aid gives you an even better chance of surviving. So ...

There are, Mark Twain was famously fond of declaring, three types of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. It’s a succinct summation of something we’re all kind of aware of in our bones ...

Jessica Simpson is creating a new life for herself in Nashville, Tennessee. The 44-year-old is still finding her footing after a whirlwind of a decade in which she became sober, had her third ...

Why is this data misleading? Here’s a clue: it’s to do with a quirky statistical phenomenon called Simpsons Paradox. (Image: The Simpsons / TCFFC ...

As a member of the Grace and Packard Commissions of the Reagan administration and a commentator on Al Gore's Reinventing Government and the Bowles-Simpson Commission, despite the best intentions ...

The answer is "Simpson's Paradox" (No not Homer's) which can appear when we have unbalanced datasets. In this case, Bank1 does the overwhelming percent of its lending in the AA where there isn't ...

What Simpson's paradox is and how to avoid it, in science as well as in marketing.

In fact, there was just one flaw in the British coverage of the OJ Simpson saga. The audience hadn’t the faintest idea who he was. Before the televised car chase, if more than one person in 50 c ...