In a world drenched in data, we must ensure that students know the meaning of numbers. Our world is awash in numbers. Headlines report the latest interest-rate cuts by the Federal Reserve, hikes or ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

The thesis that numbers are ratios of quantities has recently been advanced by a number of philosophers. While adequate as a definition of the natural numbers, it is not clear that this view suffices ...

Institutional investors face complex decisions—where to allocate capital, which managers to trust, how to weather volatility. These choices can’t rely on instinct alone. They require data, structure, ...

Analyzing your financial reports should go beyond looking at bottom-line numbers if you want to get the truest picture of how your spending is affecting your profits. Just because an expense doesn't ...

Which do you trust: hard data, or professional insight? It’s an age-old debate. And yet few advisors seem to take a firm stance on the topic. It’s no wonder. After all, a large part of why clients ...

In a recent New York Times Magazine cover story, Gary Wolf reported on the growing trend of "self measurement"--people who are monitoring and measuring an increasing number of items in their daily ...

Geneticists are poised to move into a dissection of complex phenotypic traits. The complexity of phenotypes probably arises from the segregation of alleles at many, interacting loci (quantitative ...