More information: Talbot M. Andrews et al, The Road to Reelection Is Paved with Good Intentions: Experiments on the Role of Outcomes and Intentions in Voting Behavior, The Journal of Politics ...

A groundbreaking academic experiment has recently shed light on the unexpected outcomes of using AI-driven business simulations, offering insights and lessons for both industry professionals and ...

Whether and how you observe your own experiment really does change the outcome, and the double-slit experiment is the perfect way to show how. This diagram, ...

Blindly expanding a program that currently gives recipients little health benefit at a high cost makes no sense.

Forty years ago John Wheeler proposed a thought experiment to test the strangest behavior of quantum theory. Now the experiment has been performed between Earth and a satellite in space.

What does follow suggests that rehabilitation can be a viable outcome, since the inmates came together to build a sense of community. Obviously, this would not be the outcome in all jails, but the ...

Despite the imminent expansion of Medicaid coverage for low-income adults, the effects of expanding coverage are unclear. The 2008 Medicaid expansion in Oregon based on lottery drawings from a wait ...

Because of the way the scientists set up their no-go theorem, this outcome is what most physicists expect. “I’m confident that such an experiment, if performed, would violate the inequalities ...

Back in 1961, the Nobel Prize–winning physicist Eugene Wigner outlined a thought experiment that demonstrated one of the lesser-known paradoxes of quantum mechanics. The experiment shows how the ...