Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Last week the New Yorker reported on the case of Lucy Letby, the British NICU nurse convicted in 2023 of killing seven babies. The ...

Immigration reform is a hot issue these days, both in the U.S. and in Europe. In the U.S., the debate about immigration reform has recently heated up, after the passage of a new Arizona law that would ...

The COVID-19 pandemic is evolving, and authorities agree that plans to loosen restrictions must be “data-driven.” But data are at the mercy of twin hazards — innumeracy and hyperbole — that infect the ...

Literacy is important. Almost every job requires a literate person. There is another, similar attribute required these days and that's numeracy. Are you numerate? That's the numeric equivalent of ...

When political partisans promote their tribe by slinging suspect statistics, do you wonder who gets fooled when intentionally misleading factoids nonetheless gain credibility as they are repeated? Do ...