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Statisticians, is this true? (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 months ago by cm0002@infosec.pub to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] mephiska@fedia.io 3 points 4 months ago (1 child)

I took statistics with Roger Purves. I distinctly remember him saying that stats wasn't "math" in his intro lecture.

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[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago

Hehe, I mean I'm forced to teach by-hand statistics to undergraduates and we have to do... arithmetics. Multiplication. Division. Square roots!

It's a pretty established truth that we don't really do math. Lol

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