Last month in Points of Significance, we showed how samples are used to estimate population statistics. We emphasized that, because of chance, our estimates had an uncertainty. This month we focus on ...

In a cursory glance at a figure, we often overlook error bars in deference to the more 'significant' data that are shown. But is that information actually significant ...

California's state bar has found nine more people who were erroneously told they failed the February 2025 bar exam when they had, in fact, passed. The latest revelation brings to 13 the number of ...