You have probably encountered the base rate fallacy, and it probably fooled you. Part mathematical paradox and part cognitive ...

Below are past conversations I've had with students. They are typical of discussions I have every time an assignment is due. Student One: Professor Akil, I forgot to print my references and I can’t ...

There’s a nasty virus going around and I’d like to at least identify it, if not help eradicate it. It’s the assumption that fighting is unnecessary and that therefore whenever there’s a fight there’s ...

The fallacy is that we are surprised when things that are supposed to vary a lot, come down one way a number of times. We feel the next case must break the pattern. In reality, there is no pattern.

How often do you find yourself racing at the last minute to finish a task? If you’ve ever missed a deadline the planning fallacy may well be the culprit. Most people are more conscious about time and ...

Editor's Note: For 31 years now, Paul Solman's reports on the NewsHour have aimed to make sense of economic news and research for a general audience. Since 2007, our ...

Bestselling author Steve Richheimer chatted with Digital Journal’s Markos Papadatos about his book “The Fallacy of Materialism: How Consciousness Creates the Material Universe and Why it Matters.” ...

As the saying goes, everyone has at least one entrepreneurial idea in them. But nothing says the idea is guaranteed to work. As a serial entrepreneur, I’m no stranger to abandoned projects and ideas — ...