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> Where is this narrative that statistics is only interested in understanding coming from? You may have heard of this guy called Fisher he might like to have a
by srean 8y ago
> Where is this narrative that statistics is only interested in understanding coming from?
You may have heard of this guy called Fisher he might like to have a few words with you. He says he fathered modern Stats, that he connected what was a bag of recipes to math. Many seem to agree [0] despite the fact he does not seem to be the most pleasant bloke around. The British queen seemed awfully impressed with him though, YMMV.
[0] "a genius who almost single handedly created the foundations for modern statistical science" -- Hald, Anders, A History of Mathematical Statistics.
- thousandautumns 8y agoI'm sure you were attempting to make a point, but you failed. But if you are trying to claim that R.A. Fisher only cared claims that statistics is only about inference, the point is moot because: 1. R.A. Fisher isn't the Almighty Statistical God just because he did laid a lot of foundations in early statistics. 2. Fisher has a long history of seriously stupid personal-beliefs including but not limited to: refuting anything and everything relating to Bayesian statistics, attempting to discredit the studies done showing a link between smoking and lung cancer, and advocating for eugenics and the idea of superiority/inferiority between races. So just because Fisher may have claimed something doesn't make it so.