Straw man going on here. The problem is, whilst you can get numbers out without understanding the statistics underneath, you can easily misinterpret that output

Straw man going on here. The problem is, whilst you can get numbers out without understanding the statistics underneath, you can easily misinterpret that output if you don't understand it. Look at how p values are used in science journals for an example of poor stats knowledge affecting real life outputs. There are some things in life that do require you to do the requisite reading. Things based on stats fall into that camp.