"Physics for Poets" is physics presented in a way tailored to poets [1], not physics as done by poets—i.e., for poets, not by poets. Similarly, "Statistics for

"Physics for Poets" is physics presented in a way tailored to poets [1], not physics as done by poets—i.e., for poets, not by poets. Similarly, "Statistics for Hackers" is for hackers, not by hackers. Thus the focus on brute-force computational solutions via for loops, with which hackers would presumably be familiar. [1]: Where poets is a possibly inaccurate metonym for "less mathematically sophisticated students"