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 flyingrose rated 12 months ago -
Even if you are not interested in analytics and hate math and statistics I do hope you will read just this one article about it so that you can protect yourself from invalid conclusions.
The writer is entertaining and his points are very clear for just about anyone.
From the page: &quo...
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- flyingrose rated 12 months ago
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Even if you are not interested in analytics and hate math and statistics I do hope you will read just this one article about it so that you can protect yourself from invalid conclusions.
The writer is entertaining and his points are very clear for just about anyone.
From the page: "When I was a freshman in college, there were two "bird" courses that were considered not only easy but actually fun to take. One was "The Hi-Fidelity of Physics", where I saw one of the very first CD players ever made (1981?). The other course was "The Uses and Abuses of Statistics". This course was about how marketing and PR people abuse statistical data to sell an idea, service or concept. Thinking about the course reminds of something that great American statesman Mark Twain once said: There's three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
While it's probably true that the general populace either completely believes (useless) statistics and or shuns any stats altogether, part of the problem is that people often don't completely understand statistics. Math, for some reason, is an oft-hated subject in North America. (Although this might also be true in other parts of the world.)
However, if math writers were to take the time and clearly explain some of the concepts, maybe more people would likely come to understand and appreciate the value of real statistics, and to see through the useless numbers. One concept that needs to be better understood is correlation.
However, if math writers were to take the time and clearly explain some of the concepts, maybe more people would likely come to understand and appreciate the value of real statistics, and to see through the useless numbers. One concept that needs to be better understood is correlation.
The easiest way to explain correlation is by example. (But be warned that these are blunt examples.) "
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