Brands must establish a practice of measurement for all AI endeavors—with a clear picture of success and a transparent way to ...

Paul Allin is a member of the UK National Statistician's Expert User Advisory Committee and he is the Royal Statistical Society's Honorary Officer for National Statistics. Views expressed in this ...

A recent investment bank research article suggested that generative AI could drive a 7% uptick in global GDP. What if, though, such statements were a kind of category error? What if AI were so ...

To jumpstart the carbon economy, scientists around the globe need to be aligned in how they analyze the solutions to the climate crisis Joshua Tewksbury Where I get groceries, a lot of food is sold by ...

As the old saying goes, if you can’t measure it, you can’t improve it. But of course, what you measure is important too. In this episode of The Development Podcast, we explore how the World Bank Group ...

Animals measure distances and weight for their survival. On the other hand, stemming from their need to communicate to live in society, humans created languages and, later, established the standards ...

Imagine a physicist observing a quantum system whose behavior is akin to a coin toss: it could come up heads or tails. They perform the quantum coin toss and see heads. Could they be certain that ...

Steven Lam receives research funding from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research. Sherilee Harper receives research funding from the Canadian Institutes for Health Research and the Social ...

WE TAKE the certainty of measurements for granted, but their story is as complicated and changeable as any other part of human culture. Journalist James Vincent makes this clear in his new book, which ...