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Re:So you want to study mathematics by eternityforest on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @01:53AM (#30597153)
What would someone other than a scientist use regressions for?

I've used one once. I wanted to make a volume control that I thought sounded subjectively even across the range and gave the right amount of control. So I used a polynomial regression calc on a random website and gave it some data points I wanted it to go through.

But that's not actually doing a regression, just knowing it exists and computers can do them.

Is there any math that has any use whatsoever unless you know a whole lot of it and plan to do some technical projects? I thought the whole point of learning any math(Even arithmetic, since phones exist now) is just so you can learn other more advanced math, and maybe someday be a solid state chemist or something.

Statistics lets you read a scientific paper, but you don't actually need to understand it, unless you're actually going to be reviewing their raw data. Most everyday people just trust the p values and move on to wondering about confounders they forgot.

Seems like you could cover all the statistics people will actually use it about 4 hours.

Re:So you want to study mathematics by johnmaguire on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @07:27AM (#30599142)
> Most everyday people just trust the p values and move on to wondering about confounders they forgot.

Perhaps because they never took statistics.

Re:So you want to study mathematics by Jensson on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @07:39AM (#30599215)
Basically every person who writes papers using statistics has taken a course in statistics. Medical doctors do it, psychologists do it etc. And the statistics course you'd replace calculus with would be even lower level than that, basically worthless to everyone. At least calculus trains you to think about rate of change and slopes, statistics gives you nothing practical. It isn't like people remember those formulas so they can apply them in their daily lives.
Re:So you want to study mathematics by defective on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @01:07PM (#30603372)
People don't need to remember and apply formulas. They just need an intuition that they could be applied and how that might change the appearance of the statistics, as a kind of gauge of reliability. A tool for rationalization.
Re:So you want to study mathematics by eternityforest on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @01:22PM (#30603633)
Or because they aren't scientists and quite likely the original data is hidden for privacy reasons, and also they don't have that kind of free time.