Medicine & TechnologyPie charts are discouraged in presentations and reports, making data comprehension challenging for decision-makers. Find out why in this article.
A trend can be observed in data sets where the lower first digit occur more frequently than those with higher first digits. Known as Benford’s Law, it sparks mathematical curiosity and receives attention in the natural sciences. Learn more about it in this article.
A new study shows how a man with Corticobasal Syndrome struggles with recognizing numbers zero and one. Click the link above to watch videos of their experiments with patient RFS.
While it may take children a couple of years to learn the true values of arithmetic, a new study conducted by ethologist Dr Rosa Rugani, from the University of Padova, reveals that newborn chicks can not only recognize number patterns but also place them in ascending order from left to right. In fact, while the cognitive ability to count may seem like an acquired trait taught to us in school, Rugani’s recent experiments prove that even those with bird brains can display a knack for “number mapping”.