Anyone familiar with basic statistics is familiar with the concept of a bell curve. A bell curve is a visual representation of normal data distribution, in which the median represents the highest ...

Imagine you're at a fair, and you see a booth with a giant dartboard. The booth owner challenges you to hit the bullseye. You take your shot, and the dart lands somewhere on the board. Now imagine ...

In April, I recorded an interview of almost two and a half hours with Sam Harris for his Waking Up podcast which, I learned only after I had done it, regularly attracts a few million listeners. We ...

Two hundred terabytes of data from the Thousand Genomes project is now publicly available through an Amazon Web Services cloud. But the data describing human genetic variation will only be useful when ...

In the past few weeks, I have found myself occasionally leafing through “The Bell Curve” to reassure myself. Richard Hernnstein and I didn’t really write the book people are saying we wrote, did we?

A bell curve is a graph used to visualize the distribution of a set of chosen values across a specified group that tend to have central, normal values that peak, with low and high extremes tapering ...

I came from a very interesting High School. We had the highest college acceptance rates in the state (Something like 99% or so. Absurdly high) of Washington, with the highest average SAT scores, etc ...