By Keith Devlin @KeithDevlin@fediscience.org, @profkeithdevlin.bsky.social Last month’s post discussed the subtle (and not so subtle) difficulties that can arise when using statistics to identify causes of phenomena. The example I used that time was the probability that use of the popular pain-reliever Tylenol by a pregnant woman led to an increased risk of her child being...

By Kim Larkin As an artsy kid and a dreamer, I didn’t see the connection at the time, but even when I wasn’t looking for it, math was there in my life. It didn’t appear as equations, but rather as the unseen foundation underlying my fascination with finding patterns, asking why, imagining possibilities, and playing...