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Math is everywhere, like it or not. If you use computer, smartphone, drive car... all devices are either designed or using methods deeply grounded in mathematic
by data-witcher 9y ago
Math is everywhere, like it or not. If you use computer, smartphone, drive car... all devices are either designed or using methods deeply grounded in mathematics.
The caveat is that mathematics isn't ideal for describing the world. Undoubtedly it is very useful in many fields (e.g. computer science, physics, biology, chemistry ...), but requires multiple adjustments, specific to the domain.
Take for example statistics: correlations. Start changing a single value in one of the vectors. Pearson/Spearman correlations coefficient will start to drop, so as the methods that are based on those measures. Eventually, they will suggest that the vectors are not correlated. And all you did was just adding a single outlier...