applied statistics

applicants who have bothered to install new web browsers on their computers (such as Mozilla's Firefox or Google's Chrome) perform better and stay in their posts for 15% longer, on average, than those who use the default pre-installed browser that came with their machine (ie, Internet Explorer on a Windows PC and Safari on an Apple Mac)

applicants who belonged to one or two online social networks tended to stay in their jobs for longer than those who belonged to four or more social networks

Worldwide, shifts in climate are strongly linked to human violence, researchers concluded after examining quantitative studies from the past 25 on climate and various forms of violence.

A global temperature rise of 2-degrees Celsius could increase the rate of intergroup conflicts, such as civil wars, by more than 50 percent in many parts of the world, the study's statistical analysis found.

studies that find that heat waves lead to more violent crime in U.S. cities, for example, indicate that humans are poorly equipped to deal with exposure to hotter temperatures

"Our analysis shows that most important historical figures across Wikipedia language editions are born in western countries after the 17th century, and are male,"

PageRank says that a page is important if a lot of important pages link to it.

The most important person in the world comes out as Carl Linnaeus, the 18th-century Swedish naturalist