• FaceDeer
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    810 months ago

    Humans are very bad at intuitively visualizing statistics.

    • sincle354
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      310 months ago

      If there’s anything I would not fault somebody about, it’s misunderstanding sampling in a statistical sense. Just about the biggest case of “plug into formula and pray” of all of my classes I took. I’m looking back and it’s just Greek letters to me now…

      • FaceDeer
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        10 months ago

        Oh yes, it’s not meant as a slight. It’s just something that humans need to be aware of. Just like how we need a forklift to move a one-ton object, we need to run calculations and trust the math when doing statistics.