A graphical look at tax burdens based on income and spread across multiple year’s worth of tax tables. [...]
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Jonathan Sanchez’ no-hitter brings thoughts of baseball’s more rare statistics to the forefront. From perfect games to multi-home-run games, we go over just how rare these events are. [...] |
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What?! Another birthday so soon!? No, you haven’t lost 6 months of your life, and The Count isn’t 41… yet! Due to the overwhelming popularity of my 
Have you ever had a problem stuck in your head, and you couldn’t find the answer? I was recently reminded of a problem I first came up with while doing a statistics workbook the summer of my 3rd grade year (yes, my math-teacher mother gave us workbooks to do during summer break… hey, it got results). The book dealt with dice and the probabilities of a 1 showing on a 6-sider, or the sum of 2 rolled dice being 7, etc. but my question had a twist I couldn’t quite solve. Now it’s easy to see that the probability of rolling a 1 on a 6-sided die is 1 in 6, but what probability exists, in rolling 2 dice, of seeing at least one 1 (on either die, or both)?
I’m a football fan… well, more specifically the NFL. I hear that colleges other than the one I went to actually have their own teams and that quite a lot of people think that the outcomes of these “college football games” are important, but I never saw the appeal. Anyway, as I said, I follow the NFL. This year, as the season has proceeded, I’ve found myself noticing quite a few long winning and losing streaks occuring this year. With 2 teams reaching 10-0, and a few teams having streaks of 6 and 7 wins (or losses), I decided to track the actual numbers and determine just how abnormal this season is.