Perhaps you saw the headlines this weekend: “Sexting: Just About Everyone’s Doing It,” from Discovery News, or “Online survey finds 8 in 10 adults have engaged in sexting,” from CNN. Wow – that’s ...

Discover how sample size neglect impacts statistical conclusions and learn to avoid this cognitive bias studied by renowned experts like Tversky and Kahneman.

LONDON, Nov. 11 (UPI) --Most research looking at how and why people sample information focuses on "confirmation bias," the idea that people self-select information that confirms what they already ...

Aim Although data collected by citizen scientists have received a great deal of attention for assessing species distributions over large extents, their sampling efforts are usually spatially biased.

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Representative sampling and random sampling ...

Length-biased data analysis and survival modeling have become pivotal in accurately interpreting time-to-event data, particularly in epidemiology and clinical research. Traditional survival analyses ...

Sampling is one of the most important aspects of particle size analysis. If a biased sample is analyzed, a biased particle size distribution will be recorded. The requirement for good sampling not ...

An astonishing number of things that scientists know about brains and behavior are based on small groups of highly educated, mostly white people between the ages of 18 and 21. In other words, those ...