Every five years, World Statistics Day (WSD) is observed on 20 October. Since it was first celebrated in 2010, the Day provides an opportunity to recognize the importance of official statistics and to ...

A version of this essay appears in print in our Fall 2025 issue. Subscribe to get a copy. On the morning of the 2016 presidential election, the New York Times published its final pre-election blog ...

New data on the state of Britain's job market has provided a fresh headache for the Bank of England as it prepares for its latest decision on interest rates this week. While the Office for National ...

Traders who predict Bitcoin will reach its cycle-high price by the end of this year may be misunderstanding the principles of statistics, a Bitcoin analyst says. It comes as several analysts have been ...

Remember back in 2017 when Bitcoin’s price soared and companies started promising to add everything to the blockchain? It was an embarrassing era, since blockchain technology has very few practical ...

The new migration statistics paint a complex picture. Sky's Rob Powell breaks them down. Reeves eyes raid on tax-free pension lump sum Moment Cycling Mikey pulls Sharpie pen on 'mobile phone thieves' ...

The Justice Department has opened an investigation into whether the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department manipulated crime data to make crime rates appear lower in the district than they ...

Medical experts have issued a warning about a somewhat niche cancer variant which is said to be on the rise within two particular age groups. According to a new Annals of Internal Medicine study, this ...

Amid President Trump's ongoing feud with the local leaders of the nation's capital, both sides have pointed to crime statistics to make their case on how safe — or unsafe — the city really is. It has ...

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Doug Wintemute is a staff writer for Forbes Advisor. After completing his master’s in English at York University, he began his writing career in the higher education space. Over the past decade, Doug ...