I would go as far as sacrificing calculus and vectors for stats classes if it came to a showdown. There's an absolute jungle of information we're presented wit

I would go as far as sacrificing calculus and vectors for stats classes if it came to a showdown. There's an absolute jungle of information we're presented with each day, and clearly many people would just straight up buy the vaccines-cause-death statistics uncritically. There's no critical thinking without critical stats. How are the numbers made, what do they mean? Just about every field requires you to understand this, especially the social science fields where we're talking about some quite substantial issues like replication crisis. Things like economics as well, they're things everyone wants to understand but we don't give people the tools. Somehow we have also missed out causality, when we've had the tools for a while. I reckon it's actually quite teachable though it currently feels like an advanced subject due to historical quirks.