Re:Stealing Ur Feelings
by lonelappde on Thursday October 24, 2019 @08:26PM
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Won't help. Most practicing scientists who have been trained in statistical methods don't understand them, and just publish whatever garbage they squeeze out of SAS and then add a layer of misinterpretation on top for good measure. Statistics is fundamentally beyond the comprehension of 98% of people.
And this is why mathematical statistics and probability theory should be taught in middle school (may be instead of some trigonometry and stereonometry). Not only researchers, but any decision maker, and general public too, need to understand what confidence intervals are and how normal distribution works, on an intuitive level.