I dreaded statistics in high school. When I started out with probability I was excited and thought this stuff was useful. But when I got the about two-tailed t

I dreaded statistics in high school. When I started out with probability I was excited and thought this stuff was useful. But when I got the about two-tailed tests and p-values, it was all just so opaque. I didn't feel it was that useful, plus the whole argument about rejecting or not rejecting the null hypothesis felt too philosophical and contrived. And why 95% confidence? I hated statistics throughout undergrad because of those philosophical contortions, which seemed very arbitrary to me. It wasn't until grad school when I discovered the statistical learning side of things (PCA/PLS) that statistics became exciting to me -- because suddenly statistics became useful and able to predict things. I'm still convinced the 80% of people don't need to know p-values and null hypotheses. Some might say, but what! These are used all over the social sciences! Umm no. Let the people who need to learn that learn, and actually teach statistical learning (linear regression, logistic regression, Bayesian statistics) to the rest of us in school.