Are There Billions More People Than We Thought? Controversial Study Suggests Rural Population May Be Undercounted by 50%
Is the way we've been counting the world's population wrong all along?
Tag: statistics
Immigrants Commit Fewer Crimes Than US-Born Citizens Across 150 Years of Data. It’s True Even for Undocumented Migrants
Since the 1960s, US-born citizens are twice as likely to be incarcerated as immigrants.
Song lyrics are becoming simpler and more repetitive
Music as a whole is getting sadder and simpler.
New statistical approach aims to predict when low-probability, high-impact events happen
It's the closest thing we have to an equation that can predict pandemics.
The statistic of the year: 90.5% of plastic has never been recycled
Some stats are better than others.
What does 5-sigma mean in science?
In science, there's no room for certainty. But we can get close enough by using statistical significance.
How culture migrated and expanded from city to city in the past 2,000 years
Using nothing but birth and death records, sociologists at Northeastern University developed a working framework that details the migration patterns ...
Beautiful people earn $250,000 extra on average
It's generally known that people of above-average physical looks are at a greater social advantage than people of average or ...
