A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Every survey finding published by Pew Research ...

Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine. John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the ...

Malte Elson is blunt when it comes to science’s ability to self-correct. “The way we currently treat errors doesn’t work,” he says. To prove his point, Elson, a psychologist at the University of Bern, ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

Cardiff Metropolitan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Spreadsheet blunders aren’t just frustrating personal inconveniences. They can have serious consequences. And in ...

Why does the error happen? In short, it’s triggered by instances when Facebook fails to fetch data on Meta’s servers. That means it’s out of your control most ...

Chrome and Edge are two of the most used Desktop web browsers. These browsers use the same Chromium framework and have many similar features. With similar features, there are also similar errors. In ...

When I tried to get distance distributions from restraint lists by running "python preprocessing_distributions.py --infile restraints.csv", I received an error like ...

One of the nice things about playing all of your PC games through a Steam account is that you can download the game files and store them on your local hard drive, as opposed to trying to play a game ...

Quantum Error is the best modern example I can think of when it comes to a game that attempts to do so much and yet fails at almost all of it. The main exception is ...