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Statistics

The Illusion That Comes After Choosing: Berkson's Paradox

Berkson's Paradox is the phenomenon in which a false inverse relationship appears between two unrelated traits when you look only at a group filtered by some criterion. This piece

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Psychology

Why Everyone Just Watches: The Bystander Effect

Why does help often arrive more slowly when more people are watching? This article covers the case and classic experiments that launched research on the bystander effect, the three

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Economics

Reading the Economy through the Producer Price Index (PPI)

The Producer Price Index (PPI) is an economic indicator and an important tool for measuring changes in the prices of goods and services that producers supply to the market. It does

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Psychology

One Good Trait Makes Everything Shine: The Halo Effect

The halo effect is a bias in judgment in which the impression from one standout trait spills over into how we rate other, unrelated traits. This piece covers the research that firs

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Tourism studies

A Trip with Everything Arranged: The Package Tour

A package tour bundles transportation, accommodation, meals, and an itinerary into one product sold at a single price. This article traces its origins in Thomas Cook's 1841 train e

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Information technology

Waiting on Each Other Until Everything Stops: Deadlock

A deadlock is a state in which several programs each wait for a resource the other holds, so none of them can move forward. This article covers how deadlocks arise, the four Coffma

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Food & nutrition

The Wisdom of Cooking Corn in Ash Water: Nixtamalization

Nixtamalization is a traditional Mesoamerican method of cooking and steeping dried corn in an alkaline solution such as limewater, then washing and hulling it. Learn its history, h

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Library & information science

Research Cited Together Is Close: Co-citation Analysis

Co-citation analysis judges two documents to be closer in subject the more often other documents cite them together. Learn how it emerged, how co-citation strength is counted, how

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Information technology

The Concept and Applications of 3D Printers

Considered one of the innovations of modern technology, 3D printers are bringing major changes to industries ranging from manufacturing to medicine, education, and art. 3D printers