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This article should really be entitled: "Non math things to remember when doing the math" or "Think like a statistician while forgetting stuff you learned in yo
by roundsquare 17y ago
This article should really be entitled: "Non math things to remember when doing the math" or "Think like a statistician while forgetting stuff you learned in your first statistics class."
These tips are useful if you are doing math. But, I think anyone doing the math would (should?) know that outliers can be important and not to read their own agendas into things.
Statistics without math is really about asking "how did you test for this? Is that the appropriate way to check for this? What about this explanation? Is the causality correct here?" Its not doing statistics without math (which you can't do) but "questioning* statistics without doing the math (which you can, sometimes do).
One alternate title: "Some things you learn in introductory classes aren't very useful in the real world."