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Unless you are dealing with subjects that would actually use calculus, people in their day to day lives would do much better to understand probabilities, statis
by novok 5y ago
Unless you are dealing with subjects that would actually use calculus, people in their day to day lives would do much better to understand probabilities, statistics and experiment design. Most of our lives are dealing with the results of empirical studies, in business, science and policy and humanity could use a big reminder that life is not a binary black or white, but a huge pot of maybes.
Otherwise it just gets absorbed and forgotten like another 'useless information' class. Ask how many CS majors post college use or remember calculus vs understanding stats for the seven millionth badly designed A/B test they ran at work today.
- q-big 5y ago> Unless you are dealing with subjects that would actually use calculus, people in their day to day lives would do much better to understand probabilities, statistics and experiment design. Probability theory is applied analysis. For example a measure density is a derivation of a measure with respect to another measure (Radon–Nikodym derivative). Or how do you often assign probabilities to measurable set: Lebesgue-Stieltjes integral. So you better have a very good understanding of calculus before starting with probability and statistics.
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