Below, Gene Ludwig shares five key insights from his new book, The Mismeasurement of America: How Outdated Government Statistics Mask the Economic Struggle of Everyday Americans. Americans keep ...

You’ve seen it happen: you present a fact—clear, verifiable, undeniable—and instead of reconsidering their position, the other person doubles down. “I just don’t believe it,” they say, as if facts ...

Vast amounts of data are generated every day. Statistics transforms data into meaningful information. People who practice the science of learning from data are called statisticians. Statisticians ...

The curious minds at Aperture explore why simply presenting facts often fails to change people’s beliefs. Fact check: are Marines refusing to go to Los Angeles? Elon Musk’s apology to Donald Trump is ...

The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (SCHD) is one of the most controversial ETFs I've ever covered. On the one hand, its ~4% estimated dividend yield places it in the top 2% among the 727 U.S. Size & ...