Benezet’s experiment on the non-teaching of arithmetic. In a previous post I described an experiment conducted by L. P. Benezet when he was superintendent of schools in Manchester, New Hampshire ...

Example 38.3: Catalyst Experiment . The following data set records the results of an experiment to determine how the yield of a chemical reaction varies with temperature and amount of a catalyst used.

An example would be an experiment that involves measuring the amount of rainfall in a city over a year or the average height of a random group of 25 people.

Twitter is certainly aware of this problem. As CEO Dick Costelo said in an internal memo in 2015, “We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we’ve sucked at it for years ...

The experiment was extractive. It built knowledge but denied care. By the 1960s and 1970s, conversations about addressing root causes of disease and disparities in health-care access through ...

New research suggests “microlightning” exchanges among water droplets in Earth’s early atmosphere may have sparked the building blocks of life.

So it languished for more than six months, until an engineer, who saw that the cost of writing the code for it would be small, launched a simple online controlled experiment—an A/B test—to ...