A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Every survey finding published by Pew Research ...

Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine. John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the ...

Malte Elson is blunt when it comes to science’s ability to self-correct. “The way we currently treat errors doesn’t work,” he says. To prove his point, Elson, a psychologist at the University of Bern, ...

Diego Pineda has been a devout storyteller his whole life. He has self-published a fantasy novel and a book of short stories, and is actively working on publishing his second novel. A lifelong fan of ...

After the shock of losing her job, Lisa Hill-Green of Richmond, Va., struggled to pay her bills. In an effort to bring down her costs, she went to her mortgage lender for a loan modification. But then ...

When developing software, we often think about the various features it will provide and how it will improve users’ efficiency. We seldom want to think about what hidden bugs the software might contain ...

Chrome and Edge are two of the most used Desktop web browsers. These browsers use the same Chromium framework and have many similar features. With similar features, there are also similar errors. In ...

John is a professional author, currently publishing evergreen and feature articles for Android Police. He discovered his passion for writing when he was very young, and enjoys how it challenges him ...

One of the nice things about playing all of your PC games through a Steam account is that you can download the game files and store them on your local hard drive, as opposed to trying to play a game ...

Confident, credible eyewitnesses provide very compelling evidence in courtroom proceedings. Yet eyewitness errors frequently have tragic consequences for the wrongly accused. In previous posts of the ...