There are many variations to Hans Christian Andersen’s classic literary folktale “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” but most have the same basic plot points: A vain emperor is duped by two con men into ...

Normality testing is a fundamental component in statistical analysis, central to validating many inferential techniques that presume Gaussian behaviour of error terms ...

The term “abnormal” when it comes to mental health and psychopathology is often taken for granted. You might have taken, or at least heard of, college courses in “abnormal psychology.” What, then, is ...

This post was written by Adrien Fillon from the University of Aix-Marseille, France, who led a meta-analysis of the "exceptionality effect" discussed in this post. Gilad Feldman, the corresponding ...

University of Oxford provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. No one can ever know for sure when life will return to normal after a particular event, not least because what’s normal keeps ...