Re:Think Like a Statistician – Without the Math
by rogeryu on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @07:09AM
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I remember statistics exams where the math is not the problem, but the language is. The way the question was written always caused discussion. At those exams, you could wait till the end, then afterwards the answers were given, and there was always this one guy or girl who had clever questions and could interpret the question differently. Then another answer was possible. As these were multiple choice questions, that made a lot of people happy.
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Re:Think Like a Statistician – Without the Math
by Toenex on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @09:09AM
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Absolutely. The problem with statistics is not the maths but what it means. I think this is one reason why people become so easily unstuck with statistics, carelessly applying techniques to data without really understanding the assumptions or the subtly of the question being answered by the technique.