Feb. 20 (UPI) --Researchers at The Ohio State University found cancer patients who lack math skills can be negatively impacted in the decision-making process. "The ability to understand numbers is ...

Getting something wrong is never a good feeling. And for people with math anxiety, one wrong answer could spiral into a lifetime of avoided opportunities and limited choices. “It is the vicious cycle ...

What does it mean for your health if a cancer screening is 90% accurate? Or when a lawyer says there’s a 99% chance a defendant is guilty? We encounter numbers in our everyday lives that can influence ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Amanda Redlich spends much of her time pondering complex, abstract, mathematical questions. As assistant professor of mathematics, she teaches courses in multivariate calculus, probability, and ...

Many of the toughest decisions faced by cancer patients involve knowing how to use numbers -- calculating risks, evaluating treatment options and figuring odds of medication side effects. But for ...

Last week, Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie attempted to alleviate some of the scrutiny of head coach Doug Pederson’s 4th-down decision-making. He explained that the majority of those decisions are based on ...

Ariel Procaccia is the Alfred and Rebecca Lin Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of ...

A researcher found that networks that consisted of both impulsive and deliberate individuals made, on average, quicker and better decisions than a group with homogenous thinkers. Whether it is ants ...