Our Obsession With Statistical Significance Is Ruining Science

A century ago, two oddly domestic puzzles helped set the rules for what modern science treats as "real": a Guinness brewer ...

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence – and that affects what scientific journals choose to publish

Researchers design studies that might disprove what’s called their null hypothesis – the opposite of the claim they’re ...
Boston Herald

Editorial: If we want students in school, teachers must set example

School absenteeism has been such a problem that last year, Mayor Michelle Wu and Boston Public Schools Superintendent Mary Skipper went on a door-knocking venture to homes of kids with a history of ...