Your Man Friday’s Ideas: The Joy Of Statistics

Your Man Friday’s Ideas: The Joy Of Statistics

Joy, never mind even pleasure, in statistics?! Seems a ridiculous statement. Most people don’t like math, and apparently statistics is even unpopular among mathematicians. Scientists often have to use statistics, but few seem to really appreciate their beauty, and unfortunately many use them incorrectly. But statistics are beautiful, aesthetically pleasing, sharing with art the ability to let us perceive the world with a new, brighter, and more illuminating light. And that is incredibly useful.

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