Ronald A. Fisher, one of the fathers of modern statistics, reportedly got on the nerves of many of his contemporaries. But if there’s a reason we should be annoyed with Fisher today, it’s for coining the misleading term “statistical significance.” Those two words don’t necessarily mean that a finding is important or that an effect is big. It only …

  In a country where government bailouts are common and with an alluring semiconductor unit that could net billions, Toshiba Corp. will probably stay in business even as it reels from record losses and the bankruptcy of its Westinghouse Electric nuclear energy unit. But a more pressing worry for investors is that with negative shareholder equity of 225.7 billion yen …

  By mid-afternoon on April 10, Chinese online anger at United Airlines was running so hot that the hashtag #UnitedForcesPassengerOffPlane was receiving 20 million views per hour on the Sina Weibo social network. Such fury is more typically reserved for geopolitical spats with the likes of Japan and South Korea. It’s little wonder that the outrage earned the attention of …