It's not always easy with MBA types. I once had a mentor with clout on a 9 figure investment committee tell me that maximum likelihood estimation is "the dumbe

It's not always easy with MBA types. I once had a mentor with clout on a 9 figure investment committee tell me that maximum likelihood estimation is "the dumbest idea" he'd ever heard. Words like "Cramer-Rao bound" didn't get through. What worked was saying "deep learning is usually just MLE with a mysteriously effective function approximation".