Several coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccines have received emergency use authorization (EUA) from various regulatory bodies around the world. Of these includes the messenger ribonucleic acid ...

Stop falling for misleading headlines. Understand the difference between correlation and causation, and learn how researchers prove real scientific facts.

Researchers at Oxford University in the U.K. have just released, as a pre-print paper, a study concluding, in part, that video games have a positive correlation with player well-being. Although, as is ...

A new study in the United States finds that the more a state's budget relied on sales tax revenue, the more likely it was to shorten stay-at-home orders during the early stages of the COVID pandemic.

Crime rates rise with ice cream consumption. Divorce rates rise as people use more margarine. These are classic examples of spurious correlations (Fletcher, 2014). Statistically, these variables move ...

Today’s post is the third, and final, one in a series providing guidance to teachers on how to interpret education research. Cara Jackson currently serves as the president of the Association for ...