A recent blog post on Moz by Cyrus Shepard caused quite a stir in the SEO community. This stir was rooted in part over lack of understanding of the difference between correlation and causation, and in ...

Data purists would rap my knuckles for asking this question and reply, "Never". On the other hand, "data sophists" who're accustomed to lying with Big Data in even more crude ways would wonder, “Duh, ...

In Friday’s Financial Times, economist and author Tim Harford offers a much-needed, unusually considered response to big data hype, using the reported failure of Google Flu Trends to predict a recent ...

Isn't it odd that Florida has so many people living with Alzheimer's? If Erin Brockovich was investigating the case, she probably would conclude that it's something to do with the water. Isn't it odd ...

RAILWAY AGE JANUARY 2023 ISSUE: Welcome to “Timeout for Tech with Gary T. Fry, Ph.D., P.E.” Each month, we examine a technology topic that professionals in the railway industry have asked to learn ...

For five years, Bandleader Emery Deutsch and his wife vainly sought damages from Manhattan’s Doctors Hospital for the permanent mental retardation of their son. The Deutsches claimed that hospital ...

"We are pattern seekers, believers in a coherent world, in which regularities appear not by accident but as a result of mechanical causality or of someone's intention." Daniel Kahneman's words ring ...

This article argues that scale dependence of physical and biological processes offers resistance to reductionism and has implications that support a specific kind of downward causation. I demonstrate ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/soundings.99.3.0321 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/soundings.99.3.0321 Copy URL This article enters the debate among central bankers ...

When we notice a change in the world, or in a lab, scientists wonder what caused the change. But how do we figure that out? It seems like a simple question, but there are numerous pitfalls along the ...