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The biggest help for distinct fields overall would be to assign statisticians to them. The amount of academics that doesn’t understand anything about statistics
by kaba0 4y ago
The biggest help for distinct fields overall would be to assign statisticians to them. The amount of academics that doesn’t understand anything about statistics/the scientific method is insane. And whether we like it or not, some math knowledge is required for any academic, otherwise we risk some diabetes care paper reinventing calculus badly, taking the “number of little squares beneath the curve” as the true value… [1]
[1] https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscovery-of-calculus-in-1994-what-should-have-happened-to-that-paper https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/9602/rediscover...