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 ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world we live in. Informative signs, designed to limit the virus’s spread are everywhere these days, reminding us: Wear a mask, wash your hands, cover your mouth ...

In the real world characterized by inherently analog signals, I’ve always been a follower of the principle that “I’d rather be roughly right than precisely wrong.” When you are dealing with a sensor ...

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 ...

The extremity of atrocities and tragedy is not a representative reflection of the state of the world. They are statistical outliers ...