Doubly unfortunate because the philosophical aspects of statistics are more important to students than most of maths. There are something like 4 different schoo

Doubly unfortunate because the philosophical aspects of statistics are more important to students than most of maths. There are something like 4 different schools of thought [0] and people will have a natural propensity to one of them. Although they all agree on the formulas and rigorous aspects, it is actually a challenging proposition to comprehend what someone is doing if you strongly see the world from one perspective and don't realise that academics are potentially approaching the interpretation in one of 3 other ways. It adds a lot of dryness to the textbook because the author can really only talk about the objective parts in an introductory classroom setting. But if you're getting taught by a frequentist and have a subjectivity bent it is easy to spend a year or two confused before someone clues you in that there are unresolved questions of interpretation. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretation_of_probability https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpretation_of_probability