Since the 1990’s people have been trying to figure out who’s the best friend. Is it Chandler because of his dry wit? Phoebe because of her unabashed enthusiasm? Joey because his loyalty? Well, leave it to statistics to give us a firm answer. Who’s the best friend from the show Friends is the focus of this episode of Stats and Stories with guest Mathias Basner Mathias Basner is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. His primary research interests include the effects of sleep loss on cognition, population studies on sleep time and waking activities, the effects of noise on sleep and health, and astronaut behavioral health on long-duration space missions. Occasionally, he likes to take on odd projects like running a quantitative analysis on who was the best friend on the TV series Friends, or using 150 year-old data to investigate how sounds affect sleep. Check out the full article on Significance - https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1740-9713.01574