When Bob flips a coin and announces the result, what can we really know about which coin he chose? This video builds probability trees to reveal how new evidence systematically updates our beliefs, ...

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle Certum est, quia impossiblile. – Tertulliano I recently noted that the more ...

Twenty-five years ago, if Jeff Bezos had told me he would become the richest man on Earth while selling books from his garage, I would have laughed in disbelief. Yet here we are—his seemingly ...

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. – Arthur Conan Doyle I recently noted that the more wondrous a miracle, the harder it is to show that ...

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Christian Jakob receives funding from the Australian Research Council. What happened to the scorching El Niño summer we were bracing for? Why has the east coast of Australia been drenched while the ...

Physicians use different definitions of "reasonable medical certainty" when testifying as expert witnesses in child abuse cases. The variability is troubling because it could result in flawed rulings, ...