This is brilliant. As someone who tries to fight the good fight in an organisation that plays fast and loose with statistics to bias decisions towards the outc

This is brilliant. As someone who tries to fight the good fight in an organisation that plays fast and loose with statistics to bias decisions towards the outcomes that everyone wants to hear it’s cathartic to read about such a hilarious proof of my point of view. Human intuition and statistics are incompatible, and it really is a field where a little knowledge is a dangerous thing. The golden rule is this: your intuition is wrong, your assumptions about what you can and can’t determine from your results are wrong, and you need to ask a statistician.