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Abstract Howard Wainer, Irina Grabovsky and Daniel H. Robinson explain why we should treat dramatic educational success stories in the USA with extreme caution

Abstract Oliver Keene explores how efficacy is conventionally described for medicines and how new approaches to clinical trials could give patients more helpful information

Abstract The latest evolutions of large language models are now able to tackle problems stepwise and complete tasks once thought a defining feature of human language – Anna Demming asks how, what's next, and why it matters

Abstract Meet the editor-in-chief of international statistics journal ANZJS and executive dean of the Faculty of Science and Engineering at Macquarie University in Australia

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