Re:50% of neuroscience papers suffer from a major statistica...
by achompas on Monday November 28, 2011 @11:08AM
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Agreed--that's how I was encouraged to think about statistics in my grad classes + research programs. They're tools for getting things done correctly, so they need to be understood thoroughly--no different than a given programming language.
When you study psychology you don’t expect to sit around and do math all the time.
When you study biology you don’t expect to sit around and do math all the time.
When you study economics (especially if you actually want to become and economist) you do expect to sit around and do math all the time.
For many biologists and social scientists statistics classes must seem like a chore that has little to do with what they actually want to do. For economists statistics is just another one of their math tools.