In an opinion piece, John Allen Paulos, professor of mathematics at Temple, discusses the gaps that remain between stories and statistics. "There is a tension between stories and statistics, and one under-appreciated contrast between them is simply the mindset with which we approach them," he wrote. "In listening to stories we tend to suspend disbelief in order to be entertained, whereas in evaluating statistics we generally have an opposite inclination to suspend belief in order not to be beguiled."