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Science fails to face the shortcomings of statistics.

Some believe that average sperm counts have fallen, the reasons why are still disputed by scientists. One scientist offers her insight.

Financial Times: Professor Shanna Swan has been investigating human fertility for decades.

When you think of sampling as an algorithm, you don’t need to build a statistical model of the population.

In 1939, a first-year doctoral student at UC Berkeley named George Dantzig, arrived late to class. His professor, famous statistician Jerzy Neyman, had written two statistics problems on the blackboard. Dantzig quickly jotted them down, assuming that they were homework problems. A few days later, Dantzig turned in the problems late to Professor Neyman, apologizing for the overdue assignment. The problems had seemed “a little harder to do than usual.” Six weeks later, an ecstatic Professor Neyman knocked on Dantzig’s door. As it turns out, the problems weren’t homework at all. They jus...