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GENK, BELGIUM - NOVEMBER 28: Angelo Preciado of KRC Genk battles for the ball with Noa Lang of Club Brugge during the Jupiler Pro League match between KRC Genk and Club Brugge at Cegeka Arena on November 28, 2021 in Genk, Belgium (Photo by Joris Verwijst/BSR Agency/Getty Images)

Humans

Football matches in top European leagues are becoming more predictable

Computer predictions for the outcome of European football matches over a 26-year period become more accurate in recent years

News

Vote-by-mail ballots

Society

Letting people in the US vote by mail has little impact on who wins

News

David Spiegelhalter: How to be a coronavirus statistics sleuth

Technology

David Spiegelhalter: How to be a coronavirus statistics sleuth

Features

Portrait of woman looking on blue screen lit with binary code

Humans

Risky Talk review: How to protect yourself from dodgy statistics

Culture

Ola Rosling

Video

Factfulness: Why things are better than you think

Video

Polling station

Physics

What is MRP and can it predict the result of the UK general election?

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Polling station

Physics

Tactical voting campaign says maths can solve the UK's political mess

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Children making circle

Humans

The world is getting better, so why are we convinced otherwise?

Features

Scott Morrison

Humans

How did pollsters get the Australian election result so wrong?

Analysis

Voting systems that let losing side win may increase overall happiness

Physics

Voting systems that let losing side win may increase overall happiness

A test of two alternative voting systems that measure the strength of people’s opinions has found that it is sometimes better to let the losing side win

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Technology

A new data-driven idea of warfare doesn't quite add up

Culture

Technology

A friendly introduction to AI proves oddly unnerving

Culture

Technology

Election polling accuracy has not improved since the 1940s

Analysis

Humans

We may be overdue a massive war, says a statistical analysis

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