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1,028 capsules, each one classified by the strength of its evidence.

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Accounting

The systematic recording and reporting of financial activity. Double-entry bookkeeping is among the more consequential inventions in the history of…

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Cartography

The making of maps. Every map is a deliberate distortion, because the surface of a sphere cannot be laid flat without stretching something, and every…

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Timekeeping

Measuring the passage of time and dividing it into units. Every method works by counting something that repeats regularly, and the history of the…

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Sampling

Selecting part of a population in order to draw conclusions about the whole. It is what makes measurement of large populations possible, and how the…

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The Uncertainty Principle

The result that certain pairs of physical properties cannot both have precisely defined values at the same time. It is a statement about what quantum…

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The Normal Distribution

The symmetric bell-shaped probability distribution that arises whenever many small independent influences add together. It is the most important…

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Contested

The Implicit Association Test

A reaction-time task intended to measure automatic associations that a person may not report or may not be aware of. It is among the most widely…

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Proven

The Hall Effect

Pass a current through a conductor in a magnetic field and a voltage appears across it, perpendicular to both. Discovered by a graduate student in…

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Proven

The Expansion of the Universe

Distant galaxies recede from us, and the further away they are the faster they go. The observation established that the universe has a history rather…

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Regression to the Mean

Regression to the mean is the tendency for an extreme measurement to be followed by one closer to average, for no reason other than that extremes…

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