A paper appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences offers a strikingly simple answer to a longstanding question: How do people learn and settle on shared social conventions, from ...

Excuse me! Yes, you! Ever wondered about how the Roman Emperors changed Britain? Great! You can help us rate how impressive they were. First up, Julius Caesar. He wasn’t actually an emperor – he was ...

Critical evaluation of how market economies operate, their broad socioeconomic consequences, and their impact on the lives of socially disadvantaged people. Evaluation of global and local processes ...

This is an introductory course in statistics. Topics that we will cover include elementary statistical measures, statistical distributions, statistical inference, hypothesis testing and linear ...

Suppose you want to know whether a coin is fair. How would you find out? You'd probably toss the coin a bunch of times and look to see whether heads shows up about 50% of the time. How far from 50% ...