The Eisenhower Executive Office Building, home of the Office of Management and Budget. (Getty Images) The Office of Management and Budget reposted a job announcement for the federal chief statistician ...

The random winning numbers on lottery tickets aren't exactly random at all. Mohan Srivastava is the man who figured out how to beat a scratch lottery game -- and he didn’t even profit from it.

Sports statisticians analyze data pertaining to sporting events, usually for major sports such as baseball, football or basketball. Sometimes called a scorer, sports statisticians record data live as ...

Do you enjoy working with numbers? Can you look at information and spot patterns? If yes, then a career in statistics is right for you. A statistician collects, analyses, interprets and presents ...

In 2021, with a 9-8 record in the regular season, the Philadelphia Eagles secured a spot as a Wild Card team in the NFL playoffs. But, on January 16, 2022, when they faced the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, ...

When two golfers play one another and employ the U.S. Golf Association's handicap system -- designed to give players an equal chance of winning despite different skill levels -- the better golfer ...

Back in 1980, a woman named Maureen Wilcox played the Rhode Island and the Massachusetts lotteries at the same time. And she hit the correct numbers for both. Unfortunately, she picked all the correct ...