An experiment in which people were asked to choose random numbers or boxes on a grid, then do the same a year later, has ...

If you look closely, randomness is all around us—just waiting to make us laugh, think, and scratch our heads. Today’s dump of funny and/or random pictures is here to satisfy that itch.

Random noise, such as background hubbub on a phone call, is usually thought of as unwanted interference. Now researchers at ...

The failure to understand independence lies at the heart of two famous phenomena: the gambler’s fallacy and the “hot hand” in sports. When we do understand independence, we can make better decisions ...

But often, we're simply reading into randomness. How can we tell the difference? One thing to keep in mind is the idea of independent events. In probability, this means the outcome of one event ...