Understanding the confidence interval will help you grasp what an election poll is -- or is not -- saying. As you might have guessed, the media consistently gets it ...

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Sometimes it’s hard to have confidence in science. So many results from published scientific studies turn out to be wrong. Part of the problem is that science has ...

The Conference Board’s Consumer Confidence Index tanked 7.2 points to 92.9 in March. That was the fourth decline in a row. A subindex that tracks expectations about the future slumped to its lowest in ...