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The most frequently quoted example of the crowd wisdom phenomenon comes from a 1987 study in which researchers asked 56 students to estimate the number of jelly beans in a jar. The average of the guesses (871) was closer to the true …
Introduction Do you ever wonder what mathematicians study—and why? Most of what they do is complex and difficult to understand, but fractal art might give us a glimpse. Mathematicians study fractals, which are naturally occurring figures used in many branches of science …
What do you plan to achieve in your first year in office? I won’t be doing anything radical. I am just going to listen to and learn from all the stakeholders—the scientific community, the public, consumer advocacy groups and other government offices. …
“I am encouraged that we see some progress in grades four and eight—it’s not dramatic but it is significant,” says David Evans, executive director of the National Science Teachers Association, who was not involved in the report. “It’s also encouraging that we …
Two young computer scientists have figured out how to fairly divide cake among any number of people, setting to rest a problem mathematicians have struggled with for decades. Their work has startled many researchers who believed that such a fair-division protocol was …