Welcome to Survey Says, FiveThirtyEight’s advice column. In each installment, our two advice-givers will take a reader question, debate what he or she should do, and then survey a panel of people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nothing is worse than going out to a restaurant with friends or family and having to awkwardly decide how to handle paying the ...

Let's say you're at a restaurant with a group of friends. You ordered appetizers, maybe got a bottle of wine for the table, went all in for dessert ... then the bill arrives. No one is offering to ...

If anyone accuses you of being stingy for questioning whether to split the check, feel free to tell them you’re not the only one asking. Behavioral economists are interested in this problem, too — ...

Splitting the check can be so damn awkward. Sure, with some friends you may have an easy-breezy attitude where you go out together a lot and it'll all come out in the wash. But with others, it can ...

Need to divvy up that dinner bill between five people or track expenses on a week-long business trip? Sure, you can pop open the calculator app that comes with your smartphone to do the math. You can ...