Before I co-founded my current company, 37signals, in 1999, I had a software and Web design business called Spinfree. The Internet was a fairly new and exotic phenomenon back then, and it was pretty ...

American teens are more likely than other nationalities to brag about their math ability, according to a new study. Research on 15-year-olds in nine English-speaking countries found that Americans ...

I discussed whether zero needs to be included on all scales in a recent post, ending by saying, “Not including zero in the baseline is one way to exaggerate a trend for those who don’t read labels ...

Rob MacKenzie receives funding from the UK Natural Environment Research Council, the European Research Council, and the JABBS Foundation. To exaggerate is human, and scientists are human. Exaggeration ...

Are you prone to exaggerate? Exaggeration can be a helpful tool if you want to make a story funnier or more interesting, but the problem comes when you’ve expanded so much, and have lost whatever ...